RE: Retirement: Active Income from SteemIt
Thank you! You seem very knowledgeable so please excuse me for not letting you go so easily :)
First, I'm not sure I understand the concept of "curation". It's being used in the whitepaper as well. What do you mean by "you curated the post"? What does it imply: voting, commenting, both (with AND), something else?
I hope they don't bring advertisments on Steemit, it would ruin it for me
Down voting: I don't see no [-] sign next to a post ... when there is one (next to comments) hovering the mouse above it says "Collapse/Expand". I do see a "flag" sign though - maybe that is the downvoting? Flagging content as inappropriate ?
Thanks
P.S. Would it be too much asking that you read one of my articles, see if you like it, maybe ? I did work to write them and I am pretty proud of them and a bit frustrated that nobody seems to care ... :)
Curating
Depending on the amount of STEEM Power you have, you do not want to upvote a post before it is at least 30 minutes old. (This rule may change to 15 minutes with the next STEEM blockchain hard fork.)
The rewards you see on a post is split 75/25 between the author and curators.
Curation also depends on your voting power. I do not generally let it fall below 90%.
You can monitor that from the following tool:
https://www.steemworld.org/@sorin.cristescu
Curators of a post share in the curation reward (25% of the payout) based on voting power and STEEM Power at the time of the upvote.
Down votes do not earn anything for the curator.
Down Voting Flag
You are correct. The flag is for down voting.
I have seen flagging (or down voting) used when a person uses inappropriate tags on their post. For example, an author sees that posts using the #photography tag get high payouts on average. So the author uses the #photography tag on a post that has nothing to do with photography. Flagging the post and letting the author know that use of the photography tag was not correct for the post is an appropriate use of down voting. Please note, this was only an example.
I have a bit of voting power to spare right now, so I will take a look at your blog.
Steem on,
Mike