Hidden gems on the blockchain - Disabling curation rewards on your comments

emrebeyler (74)in #steem • 8 years ago (edited)

Even though -as authors- we map posts and comments differently in our minds, technically they're the same type of objects in the chain, called as Comments.

How do we do the separation?

It's simple. If a comment doesn't have a parent_author, it means that it's a post. Otherwise, it's a reply/comment. In this post, when I use the "comment" word, you should interpret that the comment may be a top-level comment (post) or may be a reply to existing post.

A visual container holds the properties of a Comment.

Comment Options

Even though interfaces won't give you many options on comments, you have a couple of options which you can configure some aspects of your comment.

Option	Description
max_accepted_payout	Maximum payout value
percent_steem_dollars	reward split (10000 means %50/%50 split.)
allow_votes	Whether or not the comment is votable
allow_curation_rewards	Whether or not curation rewards are paid on a Comment

allow_curation_rewards flag

With this flag, it's possible to disable rewards paid to curation and gain %100 of the reward pool instead of %75.

However, as an end user, your options are limited to set this as False because most interfaces
set this True as default.

How current interfaces use it?

Steemit

Steemit doesn't let users set this. The default value is True.

Busy

Busy recently pushed a change where they set this flag as False. All comments published via busy will have %100 author rewards. However, this only valid for comments having a root post. Also, there is no way for users to choose the behaviour.

Example:

@fabien posted a comment 16 days ago and it got $0.02 on rewards.

When you see the author rewards history, he claimed %100 of the rewards as author rewards.

Utopian

Utopian doesn't push comment_options, so the default is True.

Chainbb

Chainbb is using comment_options however it's for setting beneficiaries. allow_curation_rewards is also True.

Overall, what I really want to see as a user, is ability to set this option myself. However, none of the interfaces support it yet.

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8 years ago in #steem by emrebeyler (74)

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sambillingham (65) 8 years ago

hey, thanks for the post, I remember reading that it didn't work for root posts, guess I thought it didn't work for comments too. I think it's a good change.

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emrebeyler (74) 8 years ago (edited)

I skimmed through the steemd daemon's source code and couldn't find any exception about the root posts. Created a test post in an alt account and voted, will see for sure once it's payout time comes. :)

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amosbastian (72) 8 years ago

I didn't even realise you could get curation rewards on comments (not posts), which is pretty interesting to me by itself (you guessed it, I'm pretty new). Is there a way to know that the allow_curations_rewards flag is set to False when upvoting something or not?