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RE: From minnow to baby dolphin in only a few weeks - Why can't you do the same?
Wanted to support you @jacor, so upvoted your article...only to observe that made the value of your article DECREASE. In removing our vote, the value went back up. We're still brand new on here--do you understand why that would happen???
Hi @gardenofeden , don't worry, it is not your vote that is decreasing the value. The way that it works is that there is pool of money allocated for doing payouts each day. It all depends on the way that it is distributed across all the posts for the day. When a lot of Whales votes it averages out across all the posts, hence looking like your vote decrease the value. It is not really
Sweet, thanks for that info! Upvoted your article, glad to hear it will actually support.
I also had been wondering about the workings behind upvote values. It WAS weird to upvote and see the author's reward decrease. Even more weird was seeing my humble minnow upvote count for $25+. This information truly saved me a lot of time researching the causation of this phenomenon. Thanks for the enlightenment!