@iamnotback or @smooth
Why do curation rewards percentage decreases when people upvote a post before the 30 min mark? Most curation rewards on the platform are below 5% of the total payouts per post...no wonder why there is only bots curating...
It is done to allow humans time to read the posts, otherwise only bots would curate.
Initially it didn't matter. So within 1-2-5 seconds bots had upvoted everything they deemed OK to vote. Humans were disadvantaged.
An artificial delay was introduced where if you vote too early, you lose some of your curation reward.
It goes like 3% per minute. If you vote in the first minute you keep only 3% of the curation reward that you'd normally have. If you vote in the fifteenth minute you get 50%. If you vote in the 29th minute you get 97% and after 30 minutes, curation reward is at 100%.
Btw, curation is alive and well for humans.