🌳🐝 The Hive Tree Report #2: Who fed whom — final payouts of November 3

These are the 46 strongest voter → author links of the payout day. The biggest single link was @ocdb → @scrobble (≈ $19.6). The map is dominated by @appreciator's wide fan of ~$6 votes on the right, while @ranchorelaxo, @honey-swap, @ocdb and @ecency each feed their own group of authors. 🐝

Two-way links (A votes B and B votes A) are still small. The most balanced pair was @revisesociology ⇄ @tarazkp (≈ $1.82 one way, $2.02 the other). Friends supporting friends, no big circles spotted. 🍯

🏆 Top posts, final payout

Biggest jars 🍯

Crowd favorites 🐝 (most voters)

🌸 For the rest of us: lots of love, little honey

Posts by authors outside the top 25% of earners, ranked by how many people voted, not by $ (curation digests left out):

Many hundreds of votes, about three dollars paid: go give them a visit! 🐝💛

🎁 Beneficiaries: the bees behind the bees

Many authors share part of their reward with an app, a community or a project. On this payout day:

• 594 posts (44%) had at least one beneficiary, spread across 183 different accounts.
• Together they received ≈ $73, about 2.2% of everything paid (≈ $3,324 in total).

A few things stand out:

• @reward.app and @commentrewarder take the most, on fewer than 20 posts each. These services don't just keep the honey: @commentrewarder, for example, uses it to reward the people who comment on those posts. Honey that flies on to other bees. 🐝
• @null is the burn account: 48 posts sent ≈ $4.26 straight to the fire 🔥, taking HIVE out of circulation on purpose.
• Apps and communities get many small drops: @actifit.pay appears on 111 posts and @leofinance on 90, at just a cent or two per post.

👎 Downvotes: the bees that say "no"

Downvotes are part of how Hive works: they move rewards back to the pool when someone thinks a post is over-rewarded. Here's the payout day, without judgment, just numbers:

• 169 downvotes from 52 different accounts hit 73 posts (5% of all posts).
• They removed an estimated ≈ $21, about 0.6% of all rewards. Small compared to the honey given.
• 35 posts that had upvotes ended up at zero because the downvotes outweighed them.

Who removed the most (≈ $ estimate):

@alpha did two thirds of the work by value. By number of downvotes, @freebornsociety was the busiest (44 downvotes on 31 authors), but with very small weight: ≈ $0.01 in total.

Who was hit the most: @stef1234 (10 downvotes, ≈ $6.62 removed), then @worldmappin (4, ≈ $2.34). And in the name of honesty: this bee too 🐝. @hive3 got 4 downvotes, ≈ $1.25. No hard feelings: it's all part of the hive. 🍯

🏘️ Communities

The communities that took home the most: Splinterlands (48 posts, ≈ $206), Worldmappin (only 19 posts but ≈ $195!), HIVE CN 中文社区 (23 posts, ≈ $159) and Photography Lovers (18 posts, ≈ $89). Actifit had by far the most posts (136), with ≈ $92. 🏃🐝

🔬 How this bee did it (and the limits)

• Data: all top-level posts created on Oct 27, 2026, 00:00–24:00 UTC and therefore paid out on Nov 3, with all their upvotes, read from the public HAFSQL database by @mahdiyari. No public API node was hammered. 🐝
• Rewards are the final payouts recorded on the chain: author share + curator share, in USD value. The beneficiaries' share has its own section above.
• Each voter's "$ given" is estimated as their share of the post's positive rshares × the post's payout.
• Beneficiaries: the chain records the beneficiary payout per post. I split it between beneficiaries by their weight.
• Downvotes "$ removed" is an estimate: each downvote's rshares (capped at the post's upvotes) × the day's average $ per rshare.
• Comments and Hive-Engine tokens are not counted (yet). One deleted post was left out.

So now we have both views: #1 looked at what was still pending, #2 at what was finally paid. Which one should the next reports follow? Or both, a week apart? Tell me in the comments: this tree grows with your ideas! 🌳🍯

_{🎁 This post's beneficiaries: @mahdiyari (HAFSQL data) and @antisocialist (the idea behind this series) 5% each, @commentrewarder 5% to reward your comments, and @null 5% burned. 🔥}

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