I'll be happy when my 100% vote will be worth at least $0.01
you know what annoys me somedays (sorry I'm going to rant here) Now and again a post of mine will see many votes but there all super small, like half of a percent and there are 50-100 of these mico votes. (usually dose not effect the payout at all) whats the point of that? I'm sure there is a reason that has to do with profits but I would also think there would be a better way then that.
and let me get this strait. It is best to wait at least five minutes after a post is published to vote it or the entire payout goes to the author?
Those microvotes intermittently on your posts are probably from a curation trail. A human is voting your post a certain percentage, and the followers of the trail will automatically vote a percentage of that percentage. So if the leader of the trail votes 5%, and my max vote on the trail is 7% and I am voting proportionately to the trail itself, my vote will be sub 1%.
Assuming the total votes on your post meets the threshold for payout, I don't see any reason to be annoyed. Those sub 1 percent votes do add up. You just have to keep in mind that it's probably one person voting your post, along with a 100 tiny auto votes to back them up. I periodically go through some of the stuff I've auto voted and bump up my vote, so I'd say you are still getting some degree of exposure by being discovered by a trail
Thanks for explaining, I understand it better now.
The payout doesn't go to the author anymore, it is returned to the pool now since HF19 or 20. But it moves down gradually like I said, at 5 minutes you get your max potential curation rewards (no penalty), but sometimes it might be worth to vote at 4.5mins or earlier if you think someone else will vote before 5mins too.
If your vote are too small, i.e. they won't even get you a potential CR of 0.001 then that is lost as that is the threshold, so for small accounts it's better to vote a safe 100% vote on posts you think will do well then spread them out too thin.
Thanks for helping me understand this better.