Sure, I get that angle. That wasn't a "big" Curie vote, it was one of the sub-communities supported by Curie with a vote follow, or one of the "direct follow" curators who can give out small votes. Not that a $10 vote is still anything to sneeze at, but a lot of what I said above was referring specifically to the Curie curator/reviewer operations that give out the large votes. But that bit you said... "Then you hope they come back every time you put your blood, sweat, and tears into your post..." - of course I can see why it would be frustrating to not get that big reward every time, but you are basically saying that even the small upvote made you put extra effort into posting and gave you that idea in the back of your head that another big upvote was possible, no? Compare that with... never getting any big upvote at all. For every person who gets frustrated at not receiving a repeat Curie, how many people get frustrated at NEVER receiving any significant upvote at all? I can tell you from the inside perspective, Curie would absolutely love to be able to give out more upvotes, reach more people, reward people more than once. What is actually happening is Curie has been forced to scale back the number of votes because an ever increasing amount of the total reward pool is dominated by vote sellers. Curie has had to ratchet up the average vote % and decrease the total number of votes going out. Curie operates such that the average payout from a "big" Curie vote has to be high enough that the author gets twice as much as the curator who found the post, and the reviewer who reviewed/approved it. To keep that in place in the 6 months that I have been with Curie, the finders fee and reviewers fee are now 30% what they were when I started, and the average vote % going to the author is almost double what it was. These trends are only accelerating currently - if the community at large quit supporting vote sellers and started supporting curation projects like Curie, we could reach a lot more people.
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