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couple of days ago I made a post about the changes in my curation rewards when I switched to voting manually, always at 100% and only on posts I really like, and comments on my posts. Above you can compare the 'rewards last week' to the ones from the screenshot on my previous post:
As someone mentioned in reply to that recent previous post, I actually have quite a high ranking in curation rewards. I am going to continue this strategy for curation, and if you want to autovote following me, you can follow me with Streemian. I will be regularly checking the 'last week reards' numbers to compare, but I rarely made over 1 Steem Power a week when following operators on Streemian.
To explain my strategy, it is basically this:
- I am bored, and haven't got an idea for something to write about.
- So I browse through my feed, read, vote, and sometimes comment.
- If I am still bored and barely even found anything to vote on, then I will jump to the new page, and see the posts that my feed filters out.
- When I find a new author that I like, after I upvote, I try to remember to follow them, so I will find their work next time at my first stop in step 2.
I am very curious to see if I have the nose for the good stuff, just from a little observation of my curation outcomes, I am pretty sure that I outperform the users I was following, which are in the top 4 most followed streemian operators.
Good luck and good curating!
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We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
When you follow someone from one of those voting services I guess you could find yourself towards the back of the queue. And that can severely impact your curation returns. If you have the time and inclination then I think it would be more beneficial to manually curate. It's worked for me so far. Helps find good material also.
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Yeah, and it looks like it is more profitable too, you can see how sharply upwards the 'last week rewards' numbers went up in two days after going back to manual 4 or 5 days ago.
I am of the opinion that a lot of people think that there is 'too much' to manually curate. I look at every new article every day, and it only takes me about at most an hour, sometimes less. I only read what interests me, I am not trying to 'represent' Steem but rather, just expressing my opinion about what is interesting and what is not. I am not trying to 'discover' new stuff so other people can see it, but because I want to see it.
I think that people will eventually find that all this vote power slider and autovoting and bots is a waste of time, and in fact it ensures the trending page is more homogenous. I think the voting system described in the Whitepaper pretty much is correct, though fracturing the vote rewards to dedicate a portion to comment rewards is definitely a good step forward. Vote sliders, even if they are built into the protocol, are largely unnecessary. It is better to conserve your vote power and save it for stuff that you actually like, and vote harder.
I am also of the opinion that being a good writer is a prerequisite for being a good curator. This is also why I campaign for a nonvoting power Steem Power, so whales who can't write to save their life don't waste their time trying to curate and leave that to people who are actually good curators.
Making the feed representative rather than following whales trying to put a vote on everything that will get a bigger reward, will make the forum more interesting to curious people, it will make it more diverse, and it will stop some of this idiotic fad-following that some new thing becomes the new hotness every other week, and then all the lesser writers try to post this type of post, and clutter up the feed with boring rubbish.
Stop chasing the Steem people. The quality brings steem. The cart goes behind the horse.
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Yes that comment deserves the 30% of rewards :), so yeah I completely agree with the points you have made here, and I wish more people would read what You've said, we have a chance to make a new and different place where mob doesn't rule but rather the individual is king and everyone profits from everyones growth ,that is what I want to see, not inflation rewards making people act like lunatics or completely neglecting the content for the packaging , yeah It's easy to see how steem gets to you after a while , I still remember my first post, first it was , great , no expectations, then maaan i need to promote this shit :D , it's a strange occurance to have so many things tied together, if you don't get exposure you miss out on later development and if it gets trending, you get the conversation you would like. So the same post can be a disaster and a blessing depending on the first few hours and your following, so yeah , better quality better people better content , so more is less and less is more :). Less content more quality and conversations(actual curation) and steem get a higher price because the quality is what brings the honey and bees and flies, so the more people learn the better it will get and the more they can share the better the content.
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It's a killer response, isn't it? I didn't know how to reply and do it justice. You beat me to it.
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Good morning.
A good strategy and approach. My guess is that it will be working well for you.
Have a great Friday and weekend to come!
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Just so you know - the "estimated curation rewards last week" doesn't appear to be accurate. I've actually almost never seen it accurately display my curation rewards and it's often wrong by 50% or more. Your best bet would be to check on Steemdb.com or Steemwhales.
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Agreed. This has been my conclusion also.
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Well, the change you can see in the above screenies is about that margin of error anyway. Maybe it's actually a moving average? It should just be the sum of all rewards for the last 7 days.
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Yes, it should be, but it just isn't correct. I've been watching mine for months and it has pretty much never been right.
In the one screen shot you shared, you earned about 0.5 STEEM in just one day, but it shows an estimate of 0.89 for the entire week. Just an example. You should check your curation rewards on Steemdb and you'll likely see a rather big difference between what's presented here and there.
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thanks for the tip
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I wasn't at my computer earlier, so I didn't grab the link, but this shows a 2+ increase in SP over the past week, while your current rewards estimate here on Steemit is only at 1.085.
https://steemdb.com/@l0k1/curation
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yeah i am just manual voting now, steem voter was giving me less and less curation rewards - i dont think auto bots for voting should be allowed
so how do you check you voting power is at 100%?
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look at https://steemd.com/@l0k1 with your username instead of mine and you can see it on the first information box about a screenful down in the table is 'voting power'.
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thanks man
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I've cut down on automatic votes (with Steemvoter) and am doing more manually. It's not a huge amount from curation either way, so I don't mind if I lose a bit. I'm not convinced the weekly total is correct as you can only go back 2 or 3 days. We used to have daily totals for rewards and an average. I wonder if these needed too much processing.
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I am curious to see more numbers, on a longer term. Please do not hesitate to share!
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I will be continuing to monitor it and posting when interesting things happen :)
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Thanks a lot @l0k1!
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