👋 Hello SWT Community, we’ve got some more news to share with everyone about the earning system. The BBS development team has reduced the CPM payout for Partnered users to $5. That’s down significantly from where it was variable, but upwards of $50. That means publishing bonuses are going to be a lot smaller than they have been. 

Community Pool tipping
    To make up for the lowered CPM, BBS expects board Owners/Admins to use the Community Tipping pool to compensate publishers. Partners will still receive engagement based CPM bonuses on all their posts, but now OC ⭐️ posts by partnered and non-partnered will be compensated with one or more tips from the Community pool. Now content can be rewarded and not users, which means any user can earn cashable revenue on their very first post and any post after as long as it meets the criteria to be an OC⭐️ post. 

“Payday” Fridays
    In order to make compensating publishers easier for us Admins, and more fair to the users, Fridays will now be Payday at SWT.com. Every Friday OC⭐️ posts published in the past week will receive a tip as compensation from the Community tipping pool. Paying publishers once a week will allow Admins to know how much revenue was generated in the last week and therefore how we can distribute to the week’s OC⭐️ publishers. 
      Unfortunately there’s absolutely no way around having to subjectively judge posts to determine the amount to compensate short of paying all publishers a flat rate for OC⭐️ posts. A flat rate would be far less fair than judging a post on its merits and would only encourage users to do the bare minimum needed for a post to be considered OC⭐️. Publishers should be compensated for their effort but also for the Community reaction and engagement. Paying out just once per week will also give posts time to get reactions so that can be a consideration when paying out so it’s not just completely subjective.

 It also seems there’s enough revenue coming in to raise the PoW prize to $20. That will go into effect next week, this week’s prize will still be $5. 

If you have any questions or comments please leave them below.🙏