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Yeah how does that curation award thing work, i thought that was about being a early upvoter for good content.. i upvoted adam kokesh' first post as 4th person while it was still 0.00 dollar i've never gotten any curation rewards.
often also larken rose or dollar vigilante posts when they were only 20 dollars or so.

You need a bunch of steem power before you get paid for curation.

In my opinion, one of the biggest failings here is that exposure = $teem. Nothing gains any exposure without the whales.

I'll grant that it's interesting that the whales are incentivized to provide exposure, but, right now, everything is controlled in a very top-down manner.