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RE: Steemit: Liquid Democracy for Social Media
I'm a bit confused. What is the difference between a curator and a user in this context?
I'm a bit confused. What is the difference between a curator and a user in this context?
A user is a regular Steemian like you and me.
A curator is an account (either a person or a group) that curates content, and is authorised to upvote and/or flag content by a user.
Then what is the difference between a user's upvote and a curator's upvote?
When a user upvotes a post, it counts as one upvote.
When a curator upvotes a post, his vote is combined with all the users who have authorised him to vote on his behalf. So if a curator has a hundred people in his trail, each upvote is counted as 101 upvotes (the 101st is his). [At least, that's if I'm recalling the mechanism properly.]