I see many people have the idea about buying bot upvote at a later time for the benefits of early minnow upvoters. But if we dived into the figures, I don't think those early minnows could get any meaningful curation reward at all. On the contrary, a large part of the vote value (25% at most) will be shared back to the bot. Late bot upvote is therefore benefit to the bot rather than to the early minnows.
To reward minnow upvoters, the best way I think is to directly upvote their post or comment.
Just my two cents :)
Agree! I always try to upvote any replies to my post as well :)
As to the issue of minnows not getting 'meaningful' curation rewards, hard to admit but I agree with this as well lol.
Their however is a significant increase on the curation reward if the bots vote after the minnows, a minnow will most likely get around $0.10-$0.15 instead of the usual $0.001 SP. A definite increase but kind of useless one :)
I enjoy this nice and fruitful discussion with you :)
In my previous experiment, I was a relative early upvoter on a post. At the time I upvoted, it was at $1.87. Later on all the bots came in. That post ended up over $400. My curation reward was only 0.012 SP.
May be it was because my STEEM POWER was too low.
Sounds about right. I had the same experience. Upvoted at exactly 30minutes at 100% with payout less than $5, and got around $0.011 SP in reward. My SP at that time was at 60.
Moral of the story, if your SP is less than 1k or 500, don't depend on curation rewards. :)