I didn't know you read those Kwiksave posts, It seems an eternity ago now.
Yeah man, I didn't read them all, but quite a few of them! This was the curse of being a curie curator during that bull market in 2017. There was so much content out there, and so many scammer/plagiarists, that all I had time for was writing my own posts, hunting for curie-able posts and then doing exhaustive plagiarism checks on them.
This resulted in me burning out pretty hard, but also in just reading a lot of posts without commenting. Not the best tactic on a blogging platform where networking is king lol
A mammoth post!
Haha, yeah the mammoth-est post I've written in a long while ;)
They are still tough to find, how do you find it now compared to when there was much more to choose from?
Lol, if I'm honest I don't.
I've not submitted in over 3 months now. I need to get on it to find my bi-monthly post. At the moment I don't have the time for proper curie hunting.
My tactic has been to find a (dead cert) gem of a post every few months just to make sure I don't get kicked out of the guild. If/when steem enters bull phase, and if my illness gets better, I want to have the option to go all out curating again.
Back in the day I used to use steemlookup and just hammer it every day 3-4 times a day. Even then it was a race to submit the real decent posts. I can't tell ya how may times I wrote up a fantastic recommendation supporting comment, only to hit submit in becemel and see that some other curator had beat me to it 😆
Even though there were more posts back then, it was cutthroat as the finders fee amounted to about $10 value! Unfortunately, I cashed out very little of my finders fees... but there were weeks where I made $80 - $90 worth of steem... When steem was at like $5 😆
In retrospect I made the wrong decision.
I think I have been beaten to it just once, I use steemlookup but have found other tactics. This week I'm on just 2 which is a bit crap. Another one would be good.
2 is ok. At my peak I was submitting 14 or 15 with an average of 10 accepted/week.
That was hard to maintain though and I burnt out pretty fast 😂😳
Your hard work did not go unnoticed or unappreciated, Raj!
Even when the value of @curie fell from 100 SBD to maybe 10, that message and logo under a writer's work brings more joy than money can.