Steemit: Curation League - Week 6 - Can't stop, Won't stop, @dontstopmenow!

How well are you curating financially?

Are you making the best use of your Steem Power and votes?

Welcome to week 6 - This is the sixth post in a series which looks at a method to work out just how well your curation skills rank against other Steemians.

The users listed in this report have been selected at random and vary in account size (Steem Power).

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Curation and its rewards system is a complex beast. The structure of how the rewards are decided upon for each voter have been explained many times in detail, and here are some of the best:

https://steem.io/getinvolved/paid-to-curate/

https://steemit.com/steemit/@calamus056/curation-rewards-explained-in-great-detail

https://steemit.com/curation/@miniature-tiger/an-illustrated-guide-to-curation-from-the-simple-to-the-complex-with-real-examples-from-past-posts-part-1

https://steemit.com/curation/@miniature-tiger/an-illustrated-guide-to-curation-from-the-simple-to-the-complex-with-real-examples-from-past-posts-part-2

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My takeouts from the above, and general opinion is:

• Voting in the first minute will earn you a curation reward of almost 0.000

• Voting between 1 and 29 minutes will earn an increasing % of the curation rewards split, this value peaking at 30 minutes and remaining the same from this point onwards

• The goal is to get in prior to the big hitters, but not too early in that your % in the 2nd point isn't too low (e.g. 15 minutes - approx 50%)

• It is commonly suggested that 20-25 minutes is the 'best' time to vote (especially on known power-authors posts because they are likely to have more auto-votes coming in at these times - and you want to be ahead of these votes)

• A vote of equal weight and equal Steem Power at 30 minutes will give more reward than a vote at, for example 1 hour - first come first served, but don't arrive to early :)

As you can see, a combination of many variables such as Steem Power, voting strength, voting weight, and time of vote, (and more) all play a part in the amount of reward received.

Is there a skill to it though? And how well are you doing?

I have used the following method to obtain what I need for this report.

• Accessed the steemit.com Wallet to collect Steem Power and + or - the leased/delegated steem
  

• Used the 'Rewards' drop-down menu to find 'Curation rewards' for the previous week
  

Therefore, my data is gathered manually and the curation period is only for the previous week.

This is obviously not ideal and reduces the potential to widen the results set because of the time it takes to gather the data.

A look into the SteemSQL DB is on-going, and I hope to be able to build this list programmatically in future.

This weeks results

The key columns are:

• Curation: Total curation rewards for the previous week

• SP Total: Total vested Steem Power (including delegated SP)

• Curation/SP %: The % of curation rewarded Steem Power in relation to amount of Steem Power owned

This final column is what I feel is a genuine indicator of how well you are working the curation game with the tools (including vested Steem Power) that you have at your disposal.

Imagine you have 10,000 Steem Power, and I have 1,000 Steem Power.

After a week curating, the rewards for both of us are 1 SP each.

In my mind, I'm working my Steem Power 10 X harder - If you, in this example earned curation rewards of 10 SP (and I earned 1 SP), then I would say we were curating with equal skill - rewards wise.

The % of curation rewarded Steem Power in relation to amount of Steem Power owned

This weeks' findings:

• Back at the top, and for 3 of the past 4 weeks, the unstoppable @dontstopmenow! His rewards % for the week is almost 5 times the average - brilliant!

• A close 2nd and an excellent result for @fiveboringgames who has scored well in previous weeks also

• Last weeks' leader, @biophil is a very respectable 3rd and is curating at 3 times the average

• @buggedout, a consistent top 5 performer, drops a place from last week and is in 4th spot

• An interesting account in 5th this week is @botdot, who I know is 'front-running' the @booster bot. That is is a good curation % for a known auto-voting account

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• An average performance from myself this week scoring 0.14281

• The actual average % curation reward/Steem Power this week is 0.15266, slightly down from 0.15869 last week

• Accounts @htliao, @tumutanzi, and @paulag have been removed from the league for 1 week as recent Steem Power movements have skewed their results too much to be meaningful.

A few points:

• If you have spotted any glaring errors in my post, please let me know so I can fix them.

• If you would like to be added or removed from my personal curation league (next weeks post) let me know

• If a user has powered down or powered up Steem in the past week, the results will be skewed

• Some Users, 'Power Users', and Whales (listed in this post and otherwise) are not aiming for max. curation rewards, and are supporting communities with their votes. e.g. @pharesim, @good-karma, and @acidyo

• If you have any other comments, please enter them into the box below

And ...

• I feel that curation should be about finding awesome content and giving it an up-vote - irrelevant of the curation rewards you might receive

• Help the Steem Blockchain grow, support quality content from newer authors

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Thanks for reading today, any feedback is very welcome as always

Asher