By the way, if you answer on the 30 minutes mark, you get the return... As you did, most of the rewards is going almost entirely directly to the author. It is sometimes very nice to vote and comment right away as you want to give away as much as you can to the author, but in your case, you seemed to be desiring some returns... Thus, progressively, at the 15 minutes mark, it is split 50-50 and goes all the way to 0-100% toward the commentator at the 30 minutes mark. Now that you know the trick, may the force stay with you and us all.
Namaste :)
Could you explain that again? To my understanding the author gets 75% of the total pay out and the other 25% gets split between the curators. What's this time frame you are talking about? Break it down for me please.
If you are to consider the full 25% given to the curators and voters as a whole, thus a 100%, the author gets everything on the moment of the posting including the comments reward if one is able to comment within the very first minute. From there, that 25% is going to be parted progressively with all the people voting and commenting on the post.
This progression goes from 0% on the moment of the posting progressively on a constantly rate to 50% at 15 minutes and thus all the way to the 30 minutes mark where 100% of the comments rewards goes to the commentator.
That specific 100% is on the reward you get if anyone upvotes your comment or if you do it for yourself deeming you comment is helping the platform being more sustainable.
Thus, the 25% of rewards returned to the voters and commentators starts being distributed in constant increments from 1 sec. till 30 minutes later, then it is all bunched into one pot and divided 7 days later as one big pot. I hope this might be a bit clearer?!? I cross my fingers, namaste :)