There is a common misconception that the switch to linear curation in HF25 removed the possibility to optimize your curation rewards. The game has changed immensly but there are backdoors that allow you to boost your ROI.
Kickback Schemes
A kickback scheme is an agreement (written or not) between the poster and the curator upvoter where the poster shares a portion of author rewards with the upvoter in order to attract the upvote. This is clearly advantageous for both parties. The poster keeps a share of an author reward that would not have materialised without the agreement. The upvoter earns extra compared to upvoting a no-kickback content.
The time of large vote-selling projects is long over as these attracted downvotes for being obvious shameless milking operations.
The time of "games" that introduced a trivial gambling layer to randomise kickbacks on individual post level (while keeping the long-term returns same for the patrons) has ended recently.
The progress continues.
Let's discuss a few key factors to decide the fate of a modern kickback-based reccurent-post money-making scheme.
I saw that you are downvoting with your second account @jelly.cz some of the posts written in german.
Just wanna ask, why you are doing this without trying a comment to the content-creators there first?
I dont see milking-operations or bullshit like that there, i just like the content and i am curating without bots etc. for a long time now.
I dont like your content here also and downvotes are part of the game here of course, but i dont need my downvoting power to tell you this, its better to talk to the content-creators.
Best regards.
Hallo @balte. Als ich den Downvote bemerkte, habe ich meine Tastatur als Waffe benutzt und im Affekt gehandelt. :o) Im Nachhinein war es mir dann doch zu schroff, also habe ich die - nicht ganz damenhafte Aufforderung -, die Handlung zurückzunehmen, wieder gelöscht, jedoch nicht den vom Downvote betroffenen Beitrag.
Unser Freund scheint überall Voting Kreise zu sehen, und vergeht sich an diesen, auf seine Art. Man kann dies gut erkennen, wenn man sich die einzelnen Downvotes ansieht. Auch hat er anscheinend schon andere Downvoter eingespannt. Sehe dir bitte mal den vorletzten Beitrag von @schlees an, dann wirst Du bei den Kommentardownvotes einen Namen finden, den ER hier, auf seiner Upvote Liste hat. Mir scheint es, als wenn sich hier etwas zusammenbraut! !BEER !LUV
Ach ja - !invest_vote - gefällt ihm auch nicht!!!
Viel Grüsse! :o)
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@balte, you've been given LUV from @kirstin.
Check the LUV in your H-E wallet. (1/10)
@kirstin denkt du hast ein Vote durch @investinthefutur verdient!
@kirstin thinks you have earned a vote of @investinthefutur !
We have different point of views here.
You think somebody should ask you, why you were downvoting his content?
I think, maybe it would be better, to tell someone first, why you think his content is something, which needs a downvote in your opinion?
That would be much more polite, and brings discussion first, not downvotes first.
But everybody is free here to act, downvotes are part of the system.
And bye the way, the content creators you are downvoting are not "my kids", they are independend content creators just like you are.
Some like their content, some do not.
Best regards.
Of course you must handle feedbacks if you are posting on a blockchain, also the negative ones, and nobody was complaining about your downvotes, so they can handle this of course on their own.
I just saw the downvotes and found no reason for that, so its only a general discussion.
Downvotes are negative feedback, but discussion first is usually the better way of giving a feedback for content you dont like, in my point of view.
Best regards.
Lieben Dank für Deinen Support :)
!BEER
!LUV
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@balte, you've been given LUV from @kryptodenno.
Check the LUV in your H-E wallet. (3/10)
Good morning! I have recently noticed the downvotes and followed them here. I do not know how long you have been downvoting. I have read this post with interest and would like to clarify some points in relation to my game and the points you have raised.
I had already decided several days ago that the basis of the game (essentially asking for the upvote was not a good idea). I have been trying to come up with a basis for the game not involving an upvote and I believe you have given me ideas and I will touch on that later in this comment.
Where my votes come from. I get my upvotes from having a subscription to HSBI, setting rewards.app as a beneficiary, and the individual upvoters. The bulk of the individual uovoters are “follow” upvoters who upvote because of the rewards.app designation. They would probably vote no matter the form of my posts as long as I make rewards.app a beneficiary. If you set rewards.app as a beneficiary for your posts (I do 70-80%), you would see some of my regular upvoters appear to upvote you. Except for the occasional cross posts to communities, I do not solicit votes by spamming other posts with comments or by sending spam in the memo space of wallet transfers.
I usually do two posts a day, the game and the post listing previous winners of the game and the amount of winnings they share (this is the post with the $100 bill in the thumbnail). This post is necessary for the marketing to previous winners and also as additional income to myself as none of the rewards are shared. Although, in actuality, the marketing function can be incorporated into the game post so there would only be one post per day for the game. And the thumbnails can be changed so they do not create any “flags”.
The work I do to determine all the players (winners and losers) is done manually. I have not created a bot to scan the blockchain and determine players and their corresponding txid. Do I not deserve to be compensated for this work? Work which is just as involved as doing a post on crypto financials or etc for example.
So to sum it all up, you specifically and the Hive community in general, would be okay if:
I stop asking for the upvote as a requirement for winning? Although I hope I can only make eligible upvoters a requirement (above .001 Hive or whatever)
Stop using the same thumbnail repeatedly? I am already considering going back to using my state’s lottery and would use that as the thumbnail.
Maybe these plans will keep me off the radar. And I also thank you for making me consider moving the game into other languages. I had not even thought of that and a believe it can be easily translated.
In conclusion, I would ask you to remove the downvotes from my “results” posts (the one with the $100 bill as the thumbnail). I am trying to grow my account and you are several thousand times larger than I. As always my intention with the game was to grow so I could get rewards from curation and some select investments (dCity and Splinterlands). As for the actual game posts, I realize you had a problem with my game and I won’t argue that point.
I will say I tend to agree with the commenter from the German community that perhaps posting a comment to start the dialogue instead of instantly downvoting across the board might be a better tactic. It seems to engender retaliatory reactions and reminds me of the worst of Steemit with the flame wars and all that back and forth downvoting. Thanks for your consideration.
Great advice, I guess I've been doing things all wrong here. Nice artwork too.
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