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RE: [Update 07/01] Curation reward/fork discussion updates
No discussion rewards? Does that mean that nobody has earned or ever will earn any steem through participating in the discussions?
No discussion rewards? Does that mean that nobody has earned or ever will earn any steem through participating in the discussions?
Excellent question, but no. Discussion will continue to be rewarded in the usual manner, based on upvotes given by community members who see the merits of specific comments.. The proposal that was widely disliked in 0.8.1 to shift 25% of the rewards from each post to comments below that post. This would likely encourage spammy comments trying to capture a portion of rewards on high-paying posts, even if those comments are not good enough to earn their own votes.
Aha. So the author of the post would have been rewarded if there was heavy discussions under the post, even if there were no upvotes on the replies? I can see that being a problem, yes.
Not exactly. The author of the replies could be heavily rewarded even with basically no upvotes on the replies. So any post with a lot of upvotes on the post would become a magnet for junk replies trying to grab a piece of the prize.
I'd assume it means that the rewards for commenting remain unchanged, i.e.
25% for parent author(s)
25% for the comment author
50% for voters
The Discussion Rewards related to a proposal give a percent of the OP curation rewards to commenters. This would have been in addition to the Comment Rewards above, I think.
There was a proposal to remove the 25% that goes to parent author(s), although I'm not sure of the status of that. I'll take closer stock after this hard fork and after 4th July, as life is too short.
Great thanks for that.
good jobs @pharesim
there must be