Hey, welcome to steemit!
To maximize your rewards, you'll need to wait past 30 minutes, then be the first. Also, your SP will have a lot to do with how much you get. You can check your pending payouts, here steemviz.com/pendingpayouts just put in @archlordzero to get the information. Right now, you've got .002 cents in SBD coming from curation. I'd suggest longer comments, asking questions like this one that get upvoted, will get you more curation reward than just upvotes. Your upvote power is not enough to make much difference yet.
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