Haha no worries!
The percentages are not exactly percentages to make up an entire 100% They are used as weights toward the 25% pie. Not sure if that made it more confusing or clearer. But anyways so the percentages act as a weight and are continually divided until a fair share of curation reward is able to be given out based on the weight of the reward you are able to receive.
For steem power the higher the sp the higher the influence you have. Some more influential people here have steem power at around one million while smaller people like me only have about 100 sp.
You can use blocktrades! I know they exchange bitcoin to sbd/steem. But ya polo is being annoying while they keep blocking the trades...
yeah that helps...I get the weight thing...thanks
so...getting...say 500 - 1000 steem into my account would improve my influence to a decent level?
seems I've been doing a bit of curating while surfing my feed without realizing it...now that I'm formulating a game plan it just makes sense to power up asap.