Rewards come from whale upvotes mostly. Whales are incentivized to reward authors the community enjoys. They determine this via votes from the community who appreciate posts. It's all connected here. Sure, you can do well if just a few whales like you, but from experience, that only lasts so long. A good long term strategy is to gain a large following because of consistently valuable content. Whales will notice that and want to get in on it too for curation rewards and to promote good content on the network which increases the value of their holdings.
thx for your reply. I'm not sure dynamics are that simple, though. most of upvotes comes from bots, and bots are there for curation rewards. but I don't know.
But how do bots (or, more accurately, their owners) determine who to add to their lists? What metrics do they use? I've been watching this dynamic develop since I joined in June of last year. The minnow votes count and are important because that's one of the main indicators they use. So the next question becomes, "How do you consistently get minnow votes?" I think that comes from gaining a lot of followers via creating consistently good content. Yes, minnow votes alone won't cut it. Getting noticed for consistently putting out content others upvote will, I think.
Rewards come from whale upvotes mostly. Whales are incentivized to reward authors the community enjoys. They determine this via votes from the community who appreciate posts. It's all connected here. Sure, you can do well if just a few whales like you, but from experience, that only lasts so long. A good long term strategy is to gain a large following because of consistently valuable content. Whales will notice that and want to get in on it too for curation rewards and to promote good content on the network which increases the value of their holdings.
thx for your reply. I'm not sure dynamics are that simple, though. most of upvotes comes from bots, and bots are there for curation rewards. but I don't know.
But how do bots (or, more accurately, their owners) determine who to add to their lists? What metrics do they use? I've been watching this dynamic develop since I joined in June of last year. The minnow votes count and are important because that's one of the main indicators they use. So the next question becomes, "How do you consistently get minnow votes?" I think that comes from gaining a lot of followers via creating consistently good content. Yes, minnow votes alone won't cut it. Getting noticed for consistently putting out content others upvote will, I think.
That's been my perspective so far, anyway.