What is curation? How can you be a great curator? Well essentially a curator is someone that reads post made by others and when you think that post is valuable you can upvote it and leave a comment. You start to highlight great content and get rewarded by doing so! When you cast your vote on that post you help other bloggers with identifying great content that they can read as well. Thus the good content comes forward and the crappy content stays behind.
Because you spend your time reading all this post you get rewarded because it costs you time and saves time for others. Time = money!
So what are my curating rewards?
A curation reward is a reward you receive when you’ve casted your vote on a post. At least 70% of the rewards you gave to the author will go to the author. The remaining 30% is divided between the author, the curators and the commenters. When the post is getting payed out to the author, you’ll receive your curating reward in the form of Steem Power. The Steem Power helps you power up your votes even more and thus you’ll become an even better curator.
I want to curate! How?!
Well you can vote blindly on every post you see and hope you get curating rewards but it isn’t that simple. Each time you vote it reduces your Voting Power and when your voting power drains out you aren’t able to give any rewards to the author, thus yourself. Each time you cast a vote on a post or comment on 100%, your voting power decreases with 2%. So to stay very profitable you can cast 10 votes each day on 100%.
Your voting power replenishes at a steady rate in 5 days time. This is from 0% to 100%. So each day you will replenish 20% of that voting power.
Tips to become great!
You can be the very best at curating and you have to know a bit of technical details for that.
- 0 - 15 minutes: The author receives 99% of all curation rewards. So it’s not profitable for you to cast your vote at this time.
- 15 - 30 minutes: The author receives 50% and the other 50% will be divided between all curators. This is the best time to vote. Even better when the post is amazing and there aren’t much votes on it yet!
- 30+ The curators get 99%. This is the best to do but in almost all cases, the great post already have tons of votes and your rewards are low then.
For getting maximum rewards you have to vote on something that is 30+ minutes old and has 1 vote. In the upcoming 7 days it gets tons of votes and you get a lot! Yet this will not happen. So cast your vote on at 16 minute mark. But first check if the post has value and people will actually vote on it ;)
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My top tip: if you want the maximum curation award, you need to front-run teh whales - that is, you need to vote before they do. The earliest big account to vote after 30 minutes is the one that gets the biggest rewards.
If all you can deliver is about 2 cents with your vote, it's best to vote for the posts you see in the "new" tab that haven't got many votes. Don't vote for posts that have already accumulated a big reward - all you are doing is passing money to other curators.
This was helpful, thanks very much!
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Great post and great tips !! Thanks for sharing!upped and resteemed!👍👍👍
I simply didn't get how this worked until I read this. @bluemoona @walky123 @pastbastard
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Great explanation of the curation reward system - However - If you have time to respond - can you also explain how rewards are calculated for voting and commenting or voting and promoting - or All by themselves - promoting, resteeming, and a comment with no vote? I know it's probably a complex answer but I still just don't "get it" after almost 4 weeks on here - so many different voting reward theories - and they all seem to differ a little - also should we be voting on our own posts or not? If not why is there a way to toggle it off or on for posting? Thanks @rkrijgsman
Hi there! Thanks for your reply! The rewards you get from voting is based on your Steem Power. The higher your Steem Power, the higher the reward is you can give to others ( and to yourself if need be). So if you want to have more influence on the reward pool, you need to invest money to buy Steem Power or just write kick ass blog posts and promote them on Steemit Chat and discord channels ;)
So am I reading this correctly that after 30 minutes the author gets literally zero additional value from further upvotes? That doesn't sound right (but of course I could be wrong...).
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Thanks for explaining this, I have been a here a month now and have believed upvote is the same as liking. Now I understand that little more strategic voting might be good for me:-) Thanks and have a great weekend!
Hi! Yeah it's not like facebook or twitter ;) Your vote is actually worth something! So use it wisely ;) Good luck here on Steemit!
Thanks:-)
Great post, I run a small support blog mainly focused on the arts and I have been getting into curating but had little to none knowledge about it so thanks, hopefully this will help me on my curating journey. do you perhaps have any info on where to buy/loan delegated steem power?
Thank you for explaining this ideas, briefly. I am new in this steemit community and It is very informative for me.
I'm glad it helped out! Good luck on Steemit!
You’d have to watch the screen like a hawk just to be able to time the system in this fashion. I personally think it’s too much effort for too little reward, and upvote the best posts I can find as long as they’re not past the payout deadline.
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Great write up. Some really useful information man thanks
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STOPAwesome info! Just getting started with steemit, and need all the help I can get! Thanks
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thank you for very helpfull info!!! resteemed