Just look at the comment upvotes and you will see people are upvoting for the money not for the love. Maybe you are not but people who set up bots to upvote are in it for the money, the large majority of these upvotes havn't even read the post.
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Saw it. Thank you, snowflake. I guess it's a comment nesting limitation preventing the direct reply. Not sure. Anyhow, that's very interesting how they have that set up. Another thing I noticed is that a comment from someone with higher rep will immediately go to the top above comments by newbies, even with no comment upvote. Yeah, interesting. :)
Not in all cases, snowflake. I use a bot because a lot of times I'm busy and distracted by other things, and I want to make sure to upvote the people on Steemit who I support. Then later - sometimes well after the payout - I'll come back in and read the posts I missed. At other times, like with this post, I bot upvote it, but I come in and read it and comment on it the same day it's posted, sometimes within minutes of it being posted.
I didn't know about the 30 minute delay you mentioned. Can you point me to some documentation about it? I think most people have had no clue about that. Why does the 30 minute delay for higher curation rewards exist? To discourage post comment stampeding or something else? Thanks!
@joanaltres
for some reason I can't reply directly to your post so hopefully you see this.
The 30 minute delay was apparently set up to prevent bots from gaming the system and being first to upvote every time ( because the algorithm gives higher rewards to users who upvote early)
If you use a bot I suggest you set it up so that it upvotes posts 30 min after the post was published, that's how you are going to make more money curating.
not so snowflake. I have a small number of people that I really like and I don't want to miss upvoting their posts. I come back later to see what posts of theirs I've missed.