No problem, I didn't mind participating. With curation, I don't believe you always get out what you put in. That would be like giving away free money. Think about if you upvoted yourself. You could basically double your money every day just by upvoting yourself. You would get the dollar you upvoted yourself plus a dollar in curation. There is no way the platform could be economically feasible if it allowed that.
Also, there are minnows that upvote and never see a curation reward until they have built up some decent SP. People complain about it all the time.
As I said in my other reply I look forward to seeing this project grow.