I'm newbie, but trying to understand. If you curate manually, why would want to delegate SP to someone else? Or I guess in general, why ever? Since it's the recipient of the delegated power who receives the extra curation rewards right?
I must be missing something.
Yeah I'm a newb and I don't get any of this. The article needs to start from the beginning. What is curating in terms of Steemit? Does it just mean upvoting other peoples content? All of this is over my head.
Curating on steem is simply finding, upvoting and sometimes also helping promote/spread top quality posts. Curators can earn a share of post rewards by recognising quality posts before other people do, and upvoting them first.
The tricky part is being able to consistently do this without showing favouritism so that we end up with rewards being shared with the right people making original content (like yourself) and not to people doing copy pasting from wikipedia and identity theft.
I'm new here. less than one month. Haven't posted much yet because I'm still learning the ins and outs. I don't copy and paste content but will be posting more great content from my life's adventures like this one where I made a phony press pass and got backstage at the Stones concert. Got paid for the pictures too. https://steemit.com/photography/@internetguy/how-i-got-paid-to-sneak-backstage-and-photograph-the-rolling-stones
Keep me on your radar if you like the exclusive content. Thanks.
Copy/paste is fine if the content is good AND YOU CORRECTLY ATTRIBUTE.
Upvoting is really just a miniature version of that, all things considered.
Thanks for your reply! I have been learning as much as I can the last few days. Thanks for the clarification!
Curating means looking for good quality content to vote on.
In my case I would still curate manually as well, and delegate some SP to empower good manual curators to be able to directly reward content. The curator would earn more for themselves, and I would end up with a shortlist of content to review (by checking curators upvote history on blockchain) that I could then vote on as well (earning even more rewards for the curator).
I can always cancel the delegated SP at any time if I don't feel the curator is doing a good job, or is self voting excessively etc..
It's basically loaning a small % of my power to someone who I trust has the best interests of the larger community in mind , and a way to pay someone to partially prefilter my reading list with their own recommendations.
There's only so much 1 person can absorb in a day, every day, forever and being able to empower a team of curators to help look after the place in exchange for locking down a portion of your funds that you weren't withdrawing anyway is a pretty sweet deal imo.
Especially when they cannot possibly steal from you, and everything they do is auditable :)
</ramblyrant>I see, thank you for the clear explanation, I understand now why it's mutually beneficial. This place sure has a big learning curve, but I think it'll be worth it economically and for self/community development.
Thank you for this. Makes a lot of sense. I do vote good people. I wish to follow some good curators... where do I find them? Only on Streemian?