STEEM Earning Curation Rewards - Why You Should Upvote In Steemit?

vaansteam (68) in basictraining • 7 years ago (edited)

Hello, guys here another post about Steemit. The most obvious way of earning rewards on Steemit is by posting content but in this article, we look at another great way to earn rewards and that is by being a curator not a creator. The difference is that creators produce new content and the curators help the system identify what is good so that it knows what to put in the various featured sections. Like the hot section or the trending section. You can imagine with thousands and thousands of new posts every day being creating, some content will be good, some content will be absolutely terrible and you have people visit Steemit because it offers the opportunity to go straight to some good content simply by visiting the home page or by visiting a particular category easy as that.

Your job as a curator is to go on a treasure hunt and find the diamonds in the rough so once you have sifted through lots of pieces of content you can tell the system about the good stuff by upvoting it and if a post that you upvotes later becomes popular you'll be rewarded with greater portion of the curator rewards. Now let me show you an insight into this.

If I go to my account and go to my blog I'll show you an article, where the payout has already happened. Here this one, It's eight days ago. It's 7 dollars payout. You'll see in the past payout section this amount here is $7.87 that actually shows the total payout. It doesn't show how much I will get as the author because the posted payout is split between the authors and the curators because they're both providing value so here you see exactly how that was split $7.87 has already been paid out. So I as the creator or the author received $6.68 and the curators who all voted it they're going to get $1.19 and that's going to be shared based on something I'm going to tell you in a minute so not only are the post rewards split into authors and curators those payouts are split even further. You get a portion of rewards in steem dollars and a portion of steem power. By rewarding you with steem power, the system gives an increasing amount of influence to those people who have a proven ability to identify good content early on. That's beneficial to the network because as the quality of prominent content increases the more readers will repeatedly visit the site with the confidence that they're going to get something really good every single time. In those people they then become new creators of content or new curators of content the network gets stronger and everyone benefits in an upward cycle of prosperity.

BE THE FIRST ONE
Here's my advice on how to be a good curator what you want to do to get most rewards is to be the earliest person to identify a good piece of content so that basically means scavenging the section on a regular basis. In the new section, the reason you should hang out in there because when you're looking at the popular stuff voting on content has already become popular, well that will help the author but it won't do much for you in terms of curation rewards because the popular content has already been identified as goods so you're not really adding any value by just voting on the stuff that's already popular so go hang in the new section, read some stuff and then upvote the things that you think are good content. To keep an eye on how you're doing as curator, you need to look at how much curation rewards you gathering and then see if that's improving.

Go back to your wallet there's a reward button here and if you drop this down and click on curation rewards. You'll be able to see how well you're doing in terms of being a curator and showing me here all of the different rewards and which of the articles that I have been a curator for. Just keep at it, if you've got going to be a good curator it's a skill that you need to develop so maybe keep a log a note of each week's performance in a spreadsheet and then watch as it increases as you become a better and better curator. And one final note, a good curator doesn't just mean voting on content that you think is good of course you can do that. That's not a problem but to get really good rewards as a curator you have to develop the skill of identifying what the community will love an that's a very different skill. If you're an expert in a particular topic but you might decide to specialize in curation content in a particular category and you would do that by starting from the Steemit homepage and the picking your particular category.