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RE: My etiquette rules for authoring at Steem
by doing it in the first 30 min you "steal" more rewards from other curators
I read something similar in a recent??? @steemitblog ??? post talking about changes coming up in the next hard fork. I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the statement.
The problem I'm having wrapping my head around is the idea that first you create something out of thin air (a post you created using your brain), without which there would be nothing to curate. Shouldn't you have the advantage when it comes to curation?
- Is it that you are already being rewarded 75% from being the author?
- If that's the case, why allow self-voting at all? Wouldn't that be the fairest?
Yes, you are getting 75% as the author. Authors do not get curation rewards for self-voting, but if you vote in the first 30 min, a proportion of the curation rewards is changed to author rewards. Thus, the curators get less than their 25%.
No self-voting would be fairest, yes. But it's easy to game, people would just create a secondary account, delegate all their steam power there and self-vote.
aha! I didn't realize it got switched to author rewards.
off subject... toxicology, huh? As in the movie Outbreak?
Well no, this was a virus, if I recall it correctly.
Toxicology as the science of toxins, i.e. harmful chemicals. I work as a scientist, mainly on assessing the risk of food contaminants.