Great video. I remember the first time one of my comments got voted by Dan and shot up in value. I was like "Whoa. There's money in the comments."
As for curation, I'm not sure exactly when, but at some point curation started to make a lot of sense to me once I had enough SP to make a difference. I made 15 Steem Power in 24 hours via three votes. Later I got almost 18 Steem Power off of just one vote! That blew my mind, especially because many of the posts I worked on for a long time didn't even earn close to that. But you're right, for the minnows or the plankton or whatever you call a new signup, I don't think their votes matter much at all (I've been watching @corinnestokes as she votes to see what happens for new accounts).
Thank you! Yeah I had no clue what the crap to do when I signed up I didn't know what blogging was or even curating.. I just moved from bitcoin poker (StealthSeal) and was tired of gambling all my bitcoins all the time.. Not like we aint gambling with our Voting Power here tho lol ;D
All social relationships are gambles. I think they give far better returns, though. You're doing great so far, IMO.
Thnx Bro :D