Sorry for misunderstanding... I thought 30 minutes was the recommended wiat time? No?
Btw, thankyou for supplying so many great succinct answers to these questions ( I think I speak for -everyone-)
If your vote is worth less than 0.01$ the answer is: Whenever you like.
If you are actively trying to maximize curation rewards, the answer is: Prior to big voters upvoting what you want to upvote. Keep in mind that votes cast before the first 15mn period do not provide serious curation rewards to you (edit: the answer below has the table). Curation rewards increase gradually up to the 29th minute and are maximized from the 30th minute onwards. But if more people have voted at that point it may be preferable to have voted earlier (say 15-20-25 minutes) as long as you voted earlier than them.
This system may appear "complex" because it doesn't have a fixed answer, yet the rationale behind it is to reward those who are able to "spot" good content earlier than others. So there is an increased amount of relativity on the aspect of who votes and when they vote.
There is a penalty for voting earlier on a post. This is not a negative penalty. It is a penalty in a form of a reward or bonus for the author of the post. If you vote early, what you're doing is valueing the authors post giving all or some of your curation rewards based on when you vote. After 30 minutes, 100% of the curation rewards go to you the curator of curating and 0 to the author. Anything less than 30 minutes is split between the author and the curator in terms of curation rewards.
Details:
Voting above 30 minutes into the post, the author gets 0% whilst the curator gets 100%.
Voting above 20 minutes into the post, the author gets 54% whilst the curator gets 44%.
Voting above 10 minutes into the post, the author gets 89% whilst the curator gets 11%.
Voting above 5 minutes into the post, the author gets 97.2% whilst the curator gets 2.8%.
Voting above 3 minutes into the post, the author gets 99% whilst the curator gets 1%.
after 20 minutes.
Sorry for misunderstanding... I thought 30 minutes was the recommended wiat time? No?
Btw, thankyou for supplying so many great succinct answers to these questions ( I think I speak for -everyone-)
Correct answer is (unless you are a whale) when you come across something you like :)
Close sorry not correct.
If your vote is worth less than 0.01$ the answer is: Whenever you like.
If you are actively trying to maximize curation rewards, the answer is: Prior to big voters upvoting what you want to upvote. Keep in mind that votes cast before the first 15mn period do not provide serious curation rewards to you (edit: the answer below has the table). Curation rewards increase gradually up to the 29th minute and are maximized from the 30th minute onwards. But if more people have voted at that point it may be preferable to have voted earlier (say 15-20-25 minutes) as long as you voted earlier than them.
This system may appear "complex" because it doesn't have a fixed answer, yet the rationale behind it is to reward those who are able to "spot" good content earlier than others. So there is an increased amount of relativity on the aspect of who votes and when they vote.
Just before wang, currently at around 7:59. ;)
Wang has been voting increasingly earlier for the past couple of weeks, definitely makes getting rewards more competitive for all bots. Good thing.
There is a penalty for voting earlier on a post. This is not a negative penalty. It is a penalty in a form of a reward or bonus for the author of the post. If you vote early, what you're doing is valueing the authors post giving all or some of your curation rewards based on when you vote. After 30 minutes, 100% of the curation rewards go to you the curator of curating and 0 to the author. Anything less than 30 minutes is split between the author and the curator in terms of curation rewards.
Details:
Voting above 30 minutes into the post, the author gets 0% whilst the curator gets 100%.
Voting above 20 minutes into the post, the author gets 54% whilst the curator gets 44%.
Voting above 10 minutes into the post, the author gets 89% whilst the curator gets 11%.
Voting above 5 minutes into the post, the author gets 97.2% whilst the curator gets 2.8%.
Voting above 3 minutes into the post, the author gets 99% whilst the curator gets 1%.
Hope this helps :)