Sorry, but this time I have no interesting comment to make. All I intend saying is that he is wrong, many from Steemit have moved to other equivalents of Steemit. Even I signed up, though I was reluctant to cut ties with all the friends I have made here.
I see only one solution...one way for me to ensure the curators make flat out zero from me: I will set out my payout to : Deny Payout.
If we all do the same, for how long will the so-called curators (the "true motivators" of steemit) see this change as being profitable to them.
I suggest everyone take a look at :
PocketNet
Whaleshares
Weiku
and others...
As for income on comments: I have been withdrawing from that because of the witnesses becoming so clever. What do I mean?
When I made a post, up until recently, I would submit my post and the page would change to show me a feed of the new Posts. I would go through them, looking for new posters who I felt deserved some encouragement.
Now, if we DARE to upvote someone within a period of less than 15 minutes, we are penalised by having our participation in the curatorship cancelled to zero. We now MUST wait 15 minutes, as if we have nothing else to do with our time...
I honestly did not care about making a curator fee, since most of those who I voted for were new and very low Rep posters. But now I am told that I must wait for 15 minutes, like an idiot, instead of getting on with my life. Even if I go look at something else, with the intention of returning, I forget, since there is so much else to do.
So...sorry new posters, I am withdrawing from this side of steemit life. No comments and no upvotes from me to any of you.
I have enjoyed making comments and upvoting new posters....but now it has ended it seems. Not satisfied with causing damage through Flagging, they are now getting greedy while also claiming they are the only ones who contribute to the success of Steemit. There is NO point in debating the matter, since they are so convinced they are in the right, that they do not honestly debate, just ram their point of view down our throats and suggest we are stupid for not agreeing with them.
the 15 minute time period is actually a reduction from the original 30 minute. It was and is intended to reduce the ability of bots to get the curation rewards. Since we're loaded with bots, not sure how that works but that is the intent.
You say it used to be 30 minutes? I seem to recall that until end of lasst year, when we made a post, we had the choice of setting a self-upvote instantly and I remember being told by those with higher reps that I should not set for a self-upvote, as it means I get the lions share of the curation pool and no whale will ever vote for me if they see I self-upvoted first. Are you telling me that many of the old-timers lied to me?
Also, if that is the excuse, it is a stupid one, since the time rule is known, so all owners of bots only have to adjust them to start at 15 minutes. No, this is just to make it more difficult for human beings, so that the bots of the whales can get the rewards.
How often do people go searching to find out what new posts were made? Do not most of us only look when we have submitted our own post and the page then automatically shows us the latest posts? So, we then see a post we like and want to reward. Our choices are three: either forget about it, or wait 15 minutes or just click an upvote even if it is within the first minute or two?
Till now, I just upvoted and moved on, more interested in helping the poster than getting a tiny share of his reward.
That was fine for as long as I did not think about it. Once I realised this was deliberately done without a real reason, just to ensure I do not wait, as the bots of the whales do, I stopped upvoting all and sundry - excellent, good or bad posts, they are all ignored now.
Multip[ly my reaction by thousands and I am certain it works to the advantage of Steemit and the new posters - who mostly get ignored by the whales, anyway (that was sarcasm, just in case you did not pick it up).
I have asked others and they all say they skip the feed of new posts and only check, now and then, the feed of their followers....so I am right, we have condemned the new posters who have a low sp, since no whale wants to waste many upvotes on non-profitable upvoting of newbies.
I would love to learn that I am wrong - but sadly, logic does support my arguments. A pity, as I genuinely enjoyed the thought that I am helping a number of new posters...
yes previously the 30 minute reverse auction would benefit the author. the benefit would decrease until the 30 minute mark where the curator then gained.
With the 15 minute reverse auction the rewards are burned in decrease amount until the 15 minute mark.
Same auction, just where the rewards were directed changed.
I wanted to be certain that I am not being pigheaded, so I asked all my friendly posters (all are writers or artists or musicians or poets - in other words, they are not crypto experts).
They have told me that as soon as the reward changes to 50 / 50, they are moving elsewhere. It seems I am the only one of them who will keep posting - though all my posts will refuse payments....