Partiko points increased in value for the most part of this week. They were hovering between $0.012 and $0.015 which represents a 20%-50% increase over the previous base. So that's the good news.
Overall, after using Partiko for a couple of weeks now, I think it's a great app for users starting out to acquire some steem. There's no distinction between newbies and those who've been here a while.
The downside to that is that the rewards are a little slow to come by. Took me a week to accumulate ~25,000 points. Which comes up to like a 25c - 37.5c upvote in a week.
Everything counts when it comes to accumulating steem but this isn't the fast lane ;)