Hey everyone! After a successful launch of the @commentrewarder project and seeing a lot of activity surrounding it, I wanted to get a post out real quick explaining what one of its best usecases is and why it makes life easier for smaller accounts.
I actually had to do a little research to back up what I thought I knew about the blockchain when it came to the minimum author reward threshold. A dev by the username abw helped with making sure I got the facts straight so thank you.
Basically I knew about the minimum threshold being somewhere at .02 hbd but I wasn't sure if this mainly only affected posts and comments that did 50/50 hbd/hp or if it also affected posts and comments doing 100% power up. I kind of tested this and it showed that rewards under this threshold would not generate post rewards no matter if 50/50 or 100% power up.
Why does this threshold exist? I believe it was initially put into effect to avoid spam and reward abuse. For the longest time the "company" that used to run this chain and development would offer free accounts to new users with some stake along with it. This opened up abuse as farmers/squatters would attempt to get say 1000 accounts all with 10 HP for free which meant 10000 HP votes, and in order to not be detected they could attempt to spread the votes thin over many comments. This is why the threshold was put in place but as we know now it hurts the lower stake authors but maybe also incentivizes to power up some hive? Either way. The other thing it helps with is also less calculation bloat on the blockchain itself as it can ignore a lot of these rewards that don't hit the threshold.
So what does this mean?
Basically any vote that doesn't give posts/comments at least .02 HBD in rewards in total will return nothing to the author or curator.
This is a value that depends both on the price of hive, your voting mana and your total active HP. If hive price is low (like now), you need more total HP to reach this with a 100% vote at 100% voting mana.
Okay so a lot of accounts, especially newer ones are affected by this, it also doesn't help if you delegate all of your HP away to other projects for various things which is a reason we at OCD often tell people not to delegate to us but use your voting power to build connections and give out rewards to your engagements in your posts.
If you're a smaller account that can't get comments above the .02 hbd threshold, it's pointless to give out 100% votes which burns your voting mana. This is something I see many doing.
Instead you can spend that voting power voting posts or comments that have already surpassed the threshold as you can still get .001 hp curation rewards but no curation rewards either if the post/comment doesn't get past the threshold.
So how does commentrewarder help there?
Depending on the amount of comments you receive on your post that you want CR to tip, you can give tiny votes while leaving room to adjust who gets more. For instance instead of voting the comments with 50-100% votes, which still get the comment no post rewards nor any curation rewards for yourself but burns 1-2% voting mana (if you are at 100% mana when u start voting). Instead you can vote the comments with 1-2% votes, burning an insignificant amount of mana but splitting up the comemntrewarder tips between 0.5x and 1x.
This leaves you with extra voting power to use that day to cast on posts of others or comments already past the threshold which helps avoid a lot of returns going up in flames and allows you to grow your account slightly faster.
I realize this may all be a bit complicated, especially to newcomers who may not even know how voting mana works exactly, maybe I can post about that another time. Do let me know if you understood it somewhat. :D
