When was Leofinance rebranded as INLEO? Was it October 1st? I could check, but I won't bother.
Around the time of the rebranding - probably a little after that - I listened to Khal on the weekly AMA recording, as I do every time. He answered a question from the audience regarding the tags that should be used going forward after the rebranding, for the Leofinance tribe, to take part in the reward pool mechanism for LEO.
He mentioned "leofinance" and "leo" would remain as before, since the community remains named "leofinance", and that another tag was added: "inleo". Or at least that's how I remember him saying it.
One thing I learned was that the "leo" tag also works for rewards distribution. I didn't know that. Before that, I thought only the "leofinance" tag had this role.
It's tested, and both "leo" and "leofinance" work, as I have used them alternatively lately, and they both produce LEO rewards (for example, I use the "leo" tag instead of "leofinance" where I refer to $LEO inside the post, like in my weekly Hive goals posts).
The other thing I have done since I heard Khal in that AMA was to use the "inleo" tag INSTEAD of "leofinance" in quite a number of posts since then. You'll see with what results.
But I haven't been paying attention to my LEO author rewards since then. At one point, I noticed my LEO rewards for a post were zero despite the fact I had enough votes, and that was really curious. I checked and saw I used what I thought was a valid tag, and moved on, thinking maybe it was a glitch or something.
This or last week I saw it again...
No LEO rewards... And this time I went on a deeper investigation. I checked multiple posts and saw some of them had zero LEO rewards despite my thinking they should have been rewarded.
So, I checked what they had in common compared to the other ones where I received LEO rewards. And that was the "inleo" tag instead of "leo" or "leofinance".
That means this tag doesn't work for the reward pool. Maybe it was an idea but it never got added, but the reality is it currently doesn't work (and hasn't in the past either, from my investigation).
Note: On Threads, things are different since all threads that are voted with LEO stake receive LEO rewards because the container post has the "leofinance" tag.
I don't know if anyone else made my mistake and furthermore, didn't bother to check after using the new tag. Big mistake to not check after changing the tag on some of my posts! One and a half months of not checking on this is pretty long... Particularly since I have a LEO staking goal...
There's nothing I can do about the past, so dwelling on this mistake doesn't help. But I can make sure not to make this one in the future. And hopefully, you won't do it either. Although, maybe you were smarter than I was and used the default tag, which is "leofinance".
One of my reasons for changing the tag name on some of my posts was to maybe help a bit with the SEO since tags are also links, and having the "inleo" tag link instead of "leofinance" would have helped the rebranding, maybe.
