This is very welcome for the newbies. Most of their votes sink in the deep dark vaults of Steemit because apparently there is a 0.001 SP threshold in order ro receive a curation reward.
I can telll you that even while voting just right by voting as one of the first on a popular article and after 30 minutes, can still get you below the 0.001 SP threshold. Not very encouraging.
All of this will change with HF19 :) However, do note that voting on posts that already has a large payout won't get you any rewards. Instead, look for undiscovered posts and try to promote them for maximum curation rewards.
Thanks for the tip!