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Curation rewards is another source. Depends on owned stake, and effectiveness of your upvotes. Of all my rewards using app - I get about 29% from the curation alone. And 71% - as a post author

29% seems like a really good amount. Do you Upvote just by hand or use voting tools?

By hand ? Ha ha.... If I'm retired does not mean I've no better ways to spend my day. In fact i do both. By hand i probably spend half of my voting power. But other half goes out foloving some trusted curators . I want to be noticed by as many new participants on appics as possible. And those who play fair, sooner or later are honored by an individually configured rule on my bot.

Forgot about mentioning that one yes... But I rephrase @justdentist, I am also curious...

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