I don't get it.
The Curation window is a week, for starters.
Whether you vote on a post, which already has 10$, or on a comment which has 0 $, your curation rewards should be similar - The posting rewards for the author however, are much higher for the former.
The problem will never be completely solved, as I could change my mind and suddenly like a post from 3 years ago.
How do you call the first five minutes after which curation rewards have reached the maximum?
That's what I meant with 'curation window'. It didn't mean the first 7 days after a post has been published.
However, upvoting a comment instead is kind of a mild protest which may make people think "Why the hell this guy is upvoting comments instead of the article?" Also there will be less curation rewards for the first auto upvoters of the post than in case I just follow them. In the long run other people even could decide to upvote comments as well and follow my votes. :)
In addition, a positive side effect could be that authors who know that I am upvoting comments only interacted more with their audience, made at least one comment not to miss my upvote. :)
Altogether - as anyway I cannot compete, and as anyway the STEEM price matters and not the amount of STEEM which I own - I just don't care much about maximizing my curation reward.
I was not discussing the 7 days window (which could be interesting too) but the 5 minutes window.
Especially if you don't really care too much about your curation rewards, I do not see why you are complaining about the 5-minute-rule ( I don't know what to call it either :) ) - It shouldn't really matter much, then (?)
Not trying to be personal or offensive - you are smart, make these thoughtful posts, chess questions, whatnot, yet at the same time you are too lazy to look into the programming of STEEM.
Sure, it's valuable to just formulate what you think STEEM should be like, without looking at how it works under the surface, but it really isn't rocket science to get a better understanding of the inner workings.
It wouldn't take you much to equip yourself much better to make suggestions about the protocol.
Apart from not considering to make a constructive suggestion as "complaining", I think one need not necessarily be affected (directly) oneself when criticizing something. If my suggestions would improve the overall state of the network, I profited myself in the longterm (even without maximizing my own curation rewards).
Especially when actually doing "rocket sciene" the ability to estimate the consequences of changing any parameters before making a single real calculation is essential.
I need not to make any concrete calculation for being able of anticipating the impact of a very short curation window, because indeed, that's not really "rocket science". Its consequences are obvious, and it's a matter of taste if one like them or not.
If you claim my understanding of the "inner working" of STEEM wasn't at the necessary level, it's on you to show me why and where. I agree with you to be way to lazy to make any concrete calculations, but understanding of coherences doesn't always require that. I know that I can calculate very well if I need to (or if the payment is good enough), but in this case I don't see the necessity.
All I am saying is this: Understanding how the main blockchain operations work internally would equip you to make better suggestions on how to change them.
I posted a guide and nobody seems to try it.
I think my general understanding of how STEEM works is rather good. That's why I asked "why and where".
Furthermore what the "better" or "best" suggestions would be, is obviously subjective (just read for example the comment on top): You believe in the "early bird" who finds "quality content" first, but I say that's an exception (not to say a myth) and the huge majority of early upvotes is just automated. I think it would be completely alright to find good posts late as well, as long as one finds and upvotes them at all.
I actually agree with you that I didn't dive into some mathematical and programming technical details of STEEM (which in most cases shouldn't be necessary for an overall understanding of 'things'), simply because my life isn't mainly about STEEM - so as long as other things in life consume a huge amount of my time, I won't do that.
It would be clever to link it then for lazy people like me ... :)
It could be interesting to read.
here's the link: @felixxx
it will take some hours for downloading and installing, but you don't have to sit through it ... I'd say it takes 1 -2 hours attention.
Erstmal vielen Dank. Ich würde es direkt auf Linux installieren (vermutlich nach dem SteemFest, wir fliegen schon am Freitag).
Ich glaube kaum, dass ich in nächster Zeit wirklich dazu komme, irgendetwas für STEEM zu 'entwickeln' (und sei es nur ein kleiner Test für mich selbst, um zu sehen, wie es funktioniert), aber vielleicht nehme ich mir wenigstens die Zeit, einfach mal deinem Tutorial zu folgen und zu sehen, was sich daraus ergibt.
Versprechen kann ich nichts.
Ich wäre sehr froh, der STEEM-Preis, oder der anderer Kryptowährungen, wäre (wieder) so hoch, dass ich es mir sorgenfrei erlauben könnte, mich mit viel mehr Dingen etwas ernsthafter zu beschäftigen, als das derzeit möglich ist ...