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@rok-sivante, do you think that you have made sufficient use of your own voting power, to support the kind of content that you would like to see flourishing on this platform? If you are unsure, check your all-time curation rewards on steemwhales.

8 years ago in #steemit by
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     8 years ago  

    to be honest, I really don't feel that throwing $0.20 (or however little it is at this point) at any article really makes much of a difference at all at this point.

    two words: OPPORTUNITY COST.

    all the hours spent to read tons of content to throw a few dollars of curation rewards at are hours that could be invested elsewhere.

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       8 years ago  

      Dear Rok, I´d like to convince you, that you are strongly underestimating the power of your vote.

      Let´s start with the obvious:

      • If you don´t find the time at all for manual curation you can dedicate your voting power to the different curation guilds, like @curie, @robinhoodwhale or @steemtrail. A voting trail of these guilds results in significant rewards in the range of 10$ to 100$. Without these guilds most of my posts would have remained largely unnoticed.
      • As the rewards are not growing linear with incoming votes, your vote does not result in 20 ct but dollars (!) if added to already trending posts.

      Now here comes the biggest impact you can have with your vote:

      • If you identify good posts in the 30 minutes window of the news tab with zero or close-to-zero rewards, your 20ct would put a strong mark on these posts that would be seen by many other curators, prompting them to inspect this post, too! Your initial 20 ct (in particular as they are related with your name) would massively increase the chances for that post to make dollars afterwards.

      Even if you are still committed to not contribute your content anymore, a huge stack of SP will remain on the platform. Please don´t leave it unused. Go in the news tab 3-4 times per day for 5 min each. You don´t need long to assess whether a post deserves a reward. It´s often a matter of less than a minute to decide.
      You earned tens of thousands USD here, so dedicating a bit of time helping others to earn at least something is a fair expectation, I guess.

      And it´s not just altruistic, since you would get significant curation rewards if you are good in spotting posts that others will support too. With a quarter of your SP I´m meanwhile at ~80 SP curation rewards peer week. So do the math to estimate what would be in for you (especially, as you can leverage your votes with your huge following).

      I hope my arguments will let you reconsider your perspective on the value of your vote.

      If your still not convinced, I´m offering you to do one week of curation on your behalf! Reach out to me on steemit.chat, provide me your posting key and I will demonstrate you what can be achieved with the voting power that you have at your disposal.

      Thanks!

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       8 years ago  

      Yeah, but how about participating in one of the curation guilds? Pick the one that votes for the type of content that you like. That way the cost is zero, you provide value, you get some returns.
      Also, for a lot of people those $0.20 could make a lot of difference. Oh, and there is the thing that those $0.20 are actually a lot in SP tokens, especially if (or rather when) the price goes up.

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       8 years ago  

      70K sp makes a hell of a difference once a post has hit 5-10$...

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       8 years ago  

      Well, you have 70K SP. Let's put this to a good use. Please contact me, I already dropped you a message in Steemit Chat.