RE: Getting curation Right CSI and thinking about SEO - My Steem Journal October 2019
Thanks for your bug report and this great post!
The reason for the incorrect payout amounts resides in the Steem node's logic. We have a total_payout_value field that comes from the node, but it does not contain the beneficiaries part for paid out posts. So, if 100% goes to the beneficiaries, the node returns a payout of $0.
On Steemit your post payout is shown as:
(which is not really correct)
I've spent a few hours on this today and came to an acceptable solution I think:
It's still not 100% accurate, because it's impossible to know the exact values afterwards. I now use the curator_payout_value muliplied by two as total payout in those cases. The 'returned payout' can't be calculated for this, so I just show it as 0%.
If that won't be fixed in the node, I need to think about building an own solution that is purely based on reward shares (with a 'steem per mvests' history db in mind).
I wasn't expecting a fix this quickly, but I figured you would be able to understand what was wrong there better than most.
Before Steem.Dao, declining post reward was common, but nowadays setting beneficiaries is quite popular. Beneficiaries likely increase in popularity, too. I've seen a few people analyzing the use. Your tool is very helpful for this.