Hey, @mariusfebruary.

So, that's the trick, isn't it? Trying to reward content that holds some kind of value, while at the same time, encouraging more by those who might not quite be there yet.

I wish I had the perfect formula. There probably isn't one. But since you're asking for opinions, I generally try to keep up with what's going on in my feed (I follow less than 40 people at any given time), while going out into tags of personal interest, and occasionally ending up on the New page.

I don't have any specific splits in mind, but I do feel more of a need to continue to upvote what I believe to be value adding content, be it proven, new and starting out, or somewhere in between. The ratios are going to ultimately be based on the fact that there's only so much you can do, only so much time, if you're strictly manually curating.

Personally, I think there's lots of initiatives that are helping the newcomers regardless of their content. I'm looking for value adding content that I can then turn around and add value to, through commenting and curating.

Maximizing curation returns is going to be tough on any SP level, because basically, you have to get ahead of the larger upvote. If you are the large upvote, you're helping someone else. If you're not, then you need to know where the large upvote is going to go, and that's not an easy task if value is your number one goal.