It does put me off voting for someone if they never engage. I like those who want to be part of the community and give as well as take. I tend not to give posts that have decent rewards anyway as I can give more support to those who struggle to make much despite having good content. I often say that Hive is not 'fair' as it can be a lot about who you know, but having a lot of voting power brings responsibilities too.
I have done my share of downvoting, but mostly where there's clear abuse of the platform. It does make me some enemies, but so be it.
I'm the same way. Most of my upvotes seem to go towards people who rarely get much more than a buck in rewards. It may not help my curation rewards (then again, it might... I've never really taken the time to learn how to maximize that) but I think it's probably a better use of my upvote to help unrewarded users than add to already decent to great rewards that some others get.
I don't worry too much about what I make from curation. If we can't keep people engaged here then we all lose, so have to play the long game.
That's a great way of looking at it.
I agree! I tend to go half half I suppose ... I'm terrible at maximizing curation rewards but I like to help out underrewarded too as well as good content from people I like x
You can't really maximize them anymore the way you maybe could in previous hardforks, seems a lot of people aren't aware of the recent changes/how it works from what I've been reading lately. Not saying you're not aware but there seems to be many who completely missed how the current linear rewards work.
I probably missed it to. I guess I'm more about making sure others get rewards through my upvotes and comments than worrying about what I get.
Yeah it's a good change all around.