I like that the author can offer the opportunity to sacrifice part or all of their own portion to curators. The interesting thing to me is that the post isn't all the sudden advertised or anything. Everything is out in the open if folks look on the backend... but not many newer users would realize that the incentive is kind of hidden to be curated with this app. I do think it's worth the testing as you said for the sliding factor. I used to complain about not having one for upvoting back in the day! It's an interesting time in all the development and improvements.
I am against the liquid aspects of changing the system in the hardforks but don't mind an app like this that offers some flexibility. For the change in the fork it would incentivize more folks to exchange rather than growing their accounts intrinsically! So, i do prefer the HP method of rewards over the liquid Hive. However, I don't even know how curating works anymore as far as the time and increase/decrease is concerned. I am afraid to vote at times because I see that my upvote takes the reward down and I don't want to decrease the reward for the content I find of value. @tarazkp is there any article or old post explaining this that you know?
Funny thing was that when I got my slider, I didn't know it was a thing that was earned, I thought it was a UI change :D
I am not sure why sometimes it takes the reward down, but it could be that the vote triggers a recalculation, and if the price feed has changed downward, it will appear to take it down.
Here's one I prepared earlier:
https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@tarazkp/how-does-curation-work-on-hive-what-are-the-rules-posting-and-voting-limits
before it was changed to 500 it used to be 10k or something :')
I didn't know about Busy.org for months :)
good thing you had no followers back then anyway so the votes were not worth anything :p
I remember it took me about 6 months to get to 500 followers back then - I think I was a dolphin before that :D
That makes sense. I felt guilty so I figured I better hold on and wait on my votes until I figure it out. I have been trying to upvote the smaller accounts and look for some good art to support. I found (thanks to one of Acidyo's responses and posts) that some of my early votes to help them get more just returned back to the rewards pool!
Hahahaha It's a whole new game but I will get back my old sea legs here ASAP! I am looking forward to reading your post!
You'll get there but in general, just vote on what you like. there are some good art communities. Onchainart is full of talent.