## Introduction

Part of the functionality of the Steem blockchain is the ability to change the percentage of your upvote. For example you may decide to increase your upvote from 20% to 100% if you later decide that you really like a post.

Steemit provides the following messages as part of this process. Firstly for removing your downvote:

![Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 21.00.33.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511903442/h6odmh2slsjmvrmr1hg7.png)

Secondly for making your new upvote:

![Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 21.01.05.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511903422/i9elf3w3w3ceu65iirwv.png)

This second message suggests that you will receive curation rewards from your new upvote *(It says "reset".  Nowhere does it say that you will not receive any curation rewards)*.

However you do not receive any curation rewards on a post on which you change your upvote. **This is not well known. The messages should be changed to make this clear.** I propose :
* "Removing your vote will remove any curation rewards for this post. Please note that you will not receive any curation rewards if you subsequently increase the size of your upvote." 
and
* "Please note that changing your vote to an upvote will not result in any curation rewards on this post." 

## Example which demonstrates that there are no curation rewards after a change in upvote (for info to demonstrate that such a change is necessary - and important!)  

Your can reproduce the messages by un-voting and re-voting a post. You can then check after the seven day period that you have received no curation reward.

A quicker method is to search through the steemsql database:

This query will give you an example of a post on which utopian-io has change their upvote from 2% to 10%.

SELECT
    *
FROM    
    TxVotes (NOLOCK)
WHERE
    voter = 'utopian-io' AND
    author = 'iqbalhood' and
    permlink = 'building-your-first-multiplatform-apps-using-ionic'
    
![Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 21.33.00.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511904829/mtff1s0yyaybs2oqzokx.png)

A second query will illustrate that utopian-io has received no curation rewards on this post:

SELECT
    *
FROM 
    VOCurationRewards (NOLOCK)
WHERE
    author = 'iqbalhood' and
    permlink = 'building-your-first-multiplatform-apps-using-ionic' AND
    curator = 'utopian-io'

*This gives no result.*

Removing the last SQL line (curator = 'utopian-io') shows all the curation rewards: 
 
![Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 21.38.39.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511905138/vk3oh7hophfmpjlwk72c.png)
![Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 21.45.45.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511905571/omduvup6soqdlvdfwnlf.png)

Utopian-io is not there.

The curation rewards for the first two posters on this post are:

![Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 21.49.39.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511905829/zad5rfb29llnzpo2k8ex.png)

![Screen Shot 2017-11-28 at 21.47.43.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1511905836/ron4s5vfhmb0tmaik2l7.png)

This shows where the majority of curation rewards from utopian-io's $27 upvote have ended up.
*($27 x 25% = $6.75).

*(I am not suggesting there is anything untoward in the behaviour of these posters - it is an issue with the way the system works)*


<br /><hr/><em>Posted on <a href="https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@miniature-tiger/misleading-comment-should-explicitly-state-that-there-are-no-curation-rewards-after-a-change-in-upvote-percentage">Utopian.io -  Rewarding Open Source Contributors</a></em><hr/>