Thanks for the reply. I was thinking of erasing this because I think I got too fired up.
I haven't used a curation bot. I don't think my curation rewards would be that high because i don't have enough sp and don't vote much anymore but I used to be much more active last summer and fall. Then I would try to get rewards by reading all the new post. I only log in occasionally now. I like monitoring the platform to see what is changing. I usually vote for things I want to see more of, introduce yourself post, and stuff on trending page that i like. I pretty much stopped trying to get rewards . However I do know the initial draw to sign up and the only reason I powered up was the curation aspect.