Because if someone votes before them they get the majority of the reward, even if the reward is smaller. All it takes is for one to do it slightly earlier so maybe someone does it at 29 minutes and they get nearly the full reward and vote on it first. Then next time someone goes at 28 minutes and so on. Although the total curation reward goes down it may still be worth doing if you can vote first or second or third. Ultimately it becomes a race to the lowest level where it is still profitable there are so many potential variables that it may not be possible to have a perfect algorithm.
Further some people may actually want he majority of their rewards to go to the poster.
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Do you know how the algorithm works, like how many percentage does the first,second,third,etc.. gets?
I see curating as the main way for people to make money on the platform.
As they say, only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants consume it.
Curation is extremely important because of this, steemit will have to find a way for the 99% to make money and that's going to be through curation.
In the future I can easily see 10% go to authors and 90% go to curators because that's what the demographic tells us. If you want the 99% who consume content to buy steem power you need to make it worthwhile for them.