RE: Community support- How to help a Steemian in need by upvoting their comments.
I really like the idea because of the time frames involved. Going and upvoting comments towards the end of their payout time is definitely more immediate and will withstand whatever fluctuations in the rewards there might be.
Just a couple of things. Don't wait too late on the sixth day because at some point, they lock you out and you can't vote. Six hours? Eight? Something like that.
The other thing is, I know this happens on posts, not sure about comments, but there are people who don't like sixth day upvoting. I suppose if the amounts are small, it will probably pass unnoticed. I'm not trying to say don't do it. I'm just saying, some people can be pretty sticky on things like this and I'd hate for anyone who's trying to be kind being flagged by someone else who's way to letter of their own law. :)
I just tried on an older comment and the error I got was within the last 12 hrs you can't upvote
Okay. 12 hours. Thanks for confirming that. So, when people go to vote, they will need to check how far along on the 6th day the comments are.
Thanks man.
Yes I went with 6 days on the comments because of that cutoff time. Like @sparkesy43 confirmed, they give you an error for comments that are on the time limit.
Oh yes, some people don't like last minute upvotes on their normal posts because it would have had a bigger reach had they been upvoted sooner, but I think when someone is in the position of asking for help they really don't mind you going through their older posts. You can only upvote someone once after all :)
Also, after the first 30 minutes it makes no difference to the original poster in terms of payout vs. curation %. Only visibility is affected.
In the same way I know people who freak out if you dare upvote your own post, but as I see it, upvoting my own post means my followers get a bigger payout on their curation rewards and besides, my upvote is worth all of 6 cents at full strength. I try to upvote every good comment on my posts, so that way people are being rewarded for interacting anyway.
Currently my voting power is going to take 64 hours to recover from my voting spree yesterday :)