Come to class. What is your vote worth? 0.10? 0.02 maybe. Wait, 0.003? It's okay, just follow these tips.

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What to upvote and why

Come on, if you have a $0.03 upvote and you're giving it to a $100 post, you're not gonna getting anything, so why bother?

• Vote order counts. Try being one of the first 5 to get a larger share of the reward.
• Choose authors who don't usually get a much higher payout than your upvote's value so noone takes the whole curation rewards for themselves.
• If you think a post is very good, but notice it uses bot upvotes, vote on one of the author's comments instead of the post itself. You'll get better rewards for this, while the author will get the same.
• Vote after the 30 minutes mark, or you'll be donating a share your own curation rewards to the author. Unless that's what you want to do, of course.

The infamous but important circle-jerk

Come on, if your friend's posts have good quality, it can't be bad to stalk them and vote on their articles. Just follow the above and you'll both do well. Oh, and encourage their social engagement by upvoting the best comments they've made!

Help others while helping yourself

Browse through good posts with very low payouts. Follow them and upvote them. Try choosing the ones that are over 3 days old so you get your reward more quickly. A lot of them will upvote you back.

That's all, folks

We're no strangers to how little we get when we have pretty much no SP. When you're feeling low because you have such a low value vote, remember this strategy. Let's grow together.

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Thanks for reading!