Background: How Comment Voting Works And How IPVM Pays You

We have doubled the value of informative votes. Previously, 'agree', 'informative', and 'funny' all counted for 1 unit each. Now, informative counts for 2x.

Impact

This has two impacts: (1) Informative votes will pay out at $0.70 each, whereas 'agree' and 'funny' remain at $0.35 each. (2) On the commenting leaderboard, informative votes will carry more weight. For example, if member A has 100 agrees, member B has 51 informatives, Member B will be ahead with '102' total count vs member A at 100.

In terms of annual payouts, this will increase how much we pay members by at least $2,000+ per year. For example, last year we paid members $12,000+ for votes received on their comments.

Rationale - Reward Informative Comments

Informative comments add the most substantive value to IPVM as IPVM's primarily goal is to share information and inform our members. As such, we wanted to incentive such comments.

Any questions or feedback, let us know.