When you delegate your tokens to monster-curator, for example, they share the curation rewards they receive with all the people who delegate tokens to them. But, those tokens are no longer part of your own SPT Power so it does not increase your own SPT voting power when you follow a curation trail or manually vote posts.
Delegating to monster-curator (or any other tribe token curation service) means you don't have to worry about setting up your own voting and you just receive a cut of what they earn. But, you don't spend any voting power to get those rewards either. It's like investing in an index fund in the stock market... you just sit back and collect your dividends.
In your case, since all of your SPT is delegated to monster-curator, you do not earn any SPT rewards when you manually vote an SPT post or follow an SPT curation trail, but you get those automatic "dividends" from monster-curator instead.
What I would suggest you try is to stake some of your SPT earnings on your own account (not delegating them) and then you can see how much you earn in SPT from your own curation vs. the share of curation rewards you get by delegating to monster-curator.
Gotcha! Yes, it totally makes sense now that you explained it to me. I did not know all of this.
From now on it's gonna be 50/50 staked/delegated or something along those lines. In any case, no more 100% delegated.
Thanks! That was very helpful and interesting.