Seems too similar to glean anything from it. SN was a bit slower in May and unless you perfectly replicated your April behaviour it’s hard to judge whether the small decrease in rewards is due to MSM, general activity on the site or your own activity.

Huh? I don't get it, what is this post about? Is this about a Stacker News setting I don't know about? 🤔

Have you looked at your usage graphs on your statistics page?

I looked at mine, because I was curious about this same thing. My engagement and earning were both up in May from April.

look at you with all those Sats, whatcha doing with them? Other than stacking?

I prefer Daily Rewards, too! I'm not getting more rewards from daily rewards, but psychologically and emotionally, I'm more inclined towards the Daily Rewards system.

This is a good illustrative breakdown. The current incentive scheme, while not that bad (and far better than nothing), puts way too much emphasis on daily activity, and that takes a toll. The cowboy hat is great, but should consider an average over a month, not a daily minimum. You just can't be forced to be considered a good user only if you open this site every single day and with active contributions other than reading or sporadic comments. That caused me to be uninterested in the cowboy hat.

A scheme that crosses the line between compensating good interactions towards forcing interactions tends to draw back bad content, for sometimes you don't really have something to say but have to still otherwise you get nothing. I can't do that so I ended up losing the hat and my compensations dropped dramatically, yet I don't consider myself a bad user of this platform. I think that should be corrected.

I think daily rewards is better. Cause most of stackers don't post high quality posts daily, however if their post hit the hearts this day it should be rewarded appropriately and only "daily rewards scheme" it allows