@fitzgibbon, actually, the number was 0.6% ... but after all the bullying that went around, with bernie setting up 60 fake accounts to vote everyone defending haej...
The Bully's plan backfired... and from 5000 followers, haej... has now over 8000 followers... or nearly 3% of the total users of the site...
... and consequently, went up from earning 0.6% to 2.2%. A lot of this was only possible because of all the free publicity that bernie did!
You know the saying: "Good or Bad Reviews, doesn't matter, they're all publicity."
You may wonder why I keep writing "haej..." The reason is... mr bernie set up a bot with 60 fake accounts to downvote anyone that mentions haej... a couple of times.
Basically, he's censoring anyone who disagrees with him, and reducing their rep to 0. Thus, turning SteemIt into USSRIt.