I cross posted something last night to a writing community. It was my first time and I totally didn't realise about the auto votes (DOH) but it ended up being quite nice for the author because he got nada on his original which was nice. Definitely something I will use in future, but sparingly!
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I'm still trying to understand this crossposting feature. One could crosspost another author's old article in a particular community?
Does the author get more rewards if that post had already been rewarded in the past?
Would you, th crossposter, get any incentive for crossposting?
What happens if i crosspost an old post of mine?
What happens if i crosspost a new post of mine?
What are the restrictions?
It took me a while to get my head round it but basically:
You can cross post an article to a community old or new
It can be an article by another author or one that you have authored
What it does is create a post under your name in that community with the articles contents displayed within. In steempeak it displays like a normal post in other front ends it looks like a link.
The beneficiaries are set to 90% original author 5% to the cross poster and 5% to the community. So the cross poster benefits slightly but the original author gets most of it.
So it is helpful to the author.
There are no real restrictions but it is posted under your (the cross posters name) so there could be repercussions if you cross post your own stuff. It could get downvoted for being spammy or reward farmy. Or if you have autovotes they may remove you for posting too much.
Also a community might mute you if you cross post too much or your own stuff.
So while there are no real restrictions the community as a whole will act if they see what looks like abuse.
That help?
Thanks, man, this helped a lot.
Totally get it now. I think cross-posting is an amazing new way to curate.
If an influential curator finds an extra post he'd love to reward but is worried he's used up too much SP for the day, he could crosspost it for others like him to find. That way, he helped the original author gain recognition for his work.
Since it's going to show in the crossposter's name, it would help if there was a tag to let people know he's crossposting.