A few posts on the subject say curating is based on the sq root of your steem power... im going to read those links you both gave tonight.
Now im confused regarding payouts, trying to figure out why my last payout seems wrong. The post payout, 75 percent of approx 99 sbd only paid out approx 37.5 sbd and 9.5 sp? I had transferred 45 sbd into the post, and did not lose any of the bids. So how did i end up losing money?
The posts are listed in sbd, so it should have been 75 percent of 99 sbd. Im confused.
I forget who had the post about that but they explained about it by converting the SBD's into what they called STU. Something about converting SBD to dollars to STU to steem, it was hard for me to follow. But basically there is a price difference between SBD and Steem. I don't think this is the post I remember reading, but he does explain how it works, it is somewhat complicated. https://steemit.com/steemit/@youngjerv/s-t-u-steem-token-unit-steem-and-how-rewards-are-been-split-between-authors-in-sbd-steem-power-and-usd-explained
thanks, i posted the question to him, see what he says. its odd, i spent over 46 sbd, valued at 161, to get back 166. doesnt make any sense whatsoever. It seems like for 75 percent of 100, 75 STU you should get 37.5 sbd and 37.5 sbd worth of steem power, not 37.5 divided by steem power price.