How do Curation Rewards work?
I've tried to read about it on the Steemit White Paper, but that didn't really help my understanding, or explain why I don't have any. I've been blogging on Steemit for about a week now, upvoted and commented on tons of content at varied times (both right after that person's post was made as well as 2-8 hours later), with many of them gaining different traction (some weren't so popular, others exploded into $100s posts).
But throughout all that, I haven't picked up even 0.001 (my balance has been 0 since I joined, with no history of payouts) in Steem for Curation Rewards. Am I missing something? Did I do something wrong? Is there some kind of bug?
If anyone has lots of information on Curation Rewards I'd be extremely appreciative of an explanation, because I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I always here people say that you should vote in the first 30 minutes, or right after, blahblahblah, point is I've tried every time increment and have still developed nothing.
I'm not complaining, I'm just confused as hell.
Thanks for reading, and please comment below if you can help, maybe some other users will learn something too!
I think these are the current rules:
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steem-0-8-0-released
"Starting *TODAY all curation rewards earned by voting in the first 30 minutes after a post is made will be shared with the author. If you vote immediately after a post is made, then 99.94% of the curation reward will go to the author. If you vote after 15 minutes, then 50% will go to the author. Any votes made 30 minutes or later 100% will go to the curator. This only applies to the curation rewards. The author still gets at least 50% of the total rewards."
"After the first payout on a post is made it is possible for additional payouts to be made if more votes come in later. These “late votes” will no longer qualify for curation rewards."
Thanks for sharing, this helps a bit. However like I mentioned it's weird that I've posted at varied post ages and I still have absolutely no curation rewards, even if they got super popular.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat.
Good post - I've been meaning to write something similar myself as I too am really confused.... I'll be checking back later when hopefully someone more knowledgeable will have explained what's going on!
Thanks, hopefully we both learn something!
Curation also depends on Steem power and voting power. I typically get small steam power from voting and I have 240 Steem power. But you also want to make sure your voting power is high by not over voting.
I did have the same problem, but turns out you have to have a pretty good chunk of steem power for it to even be noticeable. I now have about 200 steem power, and I still hardly notice my upvotes making a difference, any reward I get from them is always under one 0.1 like 0.03 or 0.012