Vote-Selling is not less profitable than delegation. Since you get curation as well and we also reduced the rates to 180% - 210% (due to demand), which results in more sold votes => more profit.
All in all - profit wise both are very very similar - it's just easier to have it delegated if you don't use your account or sell votes if you vote yourself often.
@vimukthi @therealwolf in my case I found some 3 star users I didn't want to upvote but some 2 and 1 star users I do.
So I'm using the manual white-list feature. I would love a way to whitelist a specific user without manually going through all pages.
I like to look at who is sending @smartmarket SBD, then if I like the content add them to my whitelist. But now it doesn't seem possible because I would have to click through 20+ pages to find user.
https://smartsteem.com/settings allows you to select specific users.
But once you select that option. Then you go to the whitelist page.
It's easy for me to add you because you are on the first page. But if user is 1 star how do I know what page to find them on. They could be on page 41, 33, who knows...
It seems the only way is to go to where 1 star users start and look through every page.
That really is a problem. Since the @smartsteem team seemed to be doing a good job I simply picked 3 stars. It's better than just selling on minnowbooster and although I prefer some 2 star users over some 3 star users, a significant level of quality is guaranteed.
@therealwolf A search function for the whitelist seems like a good suggestion.
I just ran the new numbers and actually found out that if you if you did get all the curation rewards of a post, you'll be making more by selling votes. But then again I try to buy most of my votes within the first 15 mins. Thanks for coming over correcting me.