lol - have not heard of steemvoter either. You are a wealth of information!
I did look at your curation and see the .001's coming in like mad. I mostly am over .03 now at least and hope to grow that. I definitely have way less volume of voting than you do.
I get what you are saying about set it and forget it, but I really am trying to help some minnows succeed. I think my .13 or so vote helps more than the .01 and that my promotion and commenting helps them too.
According to @penguinpablo the average post only gets 3 comments and you know half of those are from bots.
Yes, it is true that if your vote is too small [compared to all other votes] you will get nothing. I tested that when I first got here. Now my goal is to be in the top 20 upvoters and if I am in the top 10 - even better. When that happens I can get a pretty high reward from some of the posts.
I got my steemnow bar chart!!! Thank you so much. That will keep me on track. I will come back and upvote your comment when I get some power back. That was worth more than I can upvote you but just pretend I have a $10 upvote :)
You should also get your SP from http://www.minnowbooster.net/ . I think that your upvotes are a bit more powerful etc... if you lease SP from minnowbooster.net. Though you have to pay to get SP as others will delegate the requested SP for a price.
Finally you mention something I am actually doing lol. I have 3 delegated sp leases and might get 4 - not sure. But I will definitely keep this up until I'm about 5000 sp on my own. I cannot believe the difference my "huge" .13 vote makes. I outvote whales frequently since they have no power and vote at 5%.
I'm paying 28 STEEM a month for this effect right now. I just started at the end of August and I wish I would have started as soon as I had the sbd to do it.
And I buy the upgoat thing on the 6th day if I qualify now. I figure this gives a better benefit to my upvoting "fans" and recycles some sbd into sp at the same time. I'm really happy with this plan so far but open to your thoughts. I don't do it early since I think it looks trashy. So I just wait until the end.
With the upgoat, I also don't feel so sick and sad about my own low post payouts since I made them bigger! I delude myself!
I saw your rewards for curation and I am very impressed. After all you put in the work to find these posts and I commend you for that. Unfortunately I am not as astute as you so i will have to manage with the smaller rewards ;-)
That's not true! If you had the desire you could do this too! It's all a matter of finding what interests you here and jumping on it.
Somehow I'm all fascinated by the preppers, homeschoolers, and homesteaders, even though I live in a hotel with no kitchen and no kids now. I have those type of people on twitter too, so I hope I get interest that way. I'm getting rt's anyway :)
Thanks for the compliment. I'm on a mission with this curation business. I have no money to invest so I have to grow my sp from curation and author rewards.
Good luck on your endeavor.
By the way, if you do use chainbb you may find it a bit limiting to find posts. What I would suggest you do to use Steemit to find the post you like, then copy over part of the url to chainbb and make you comments here, thereby reaping the extra upvote from @jesta for each comment you make. Each upvote from @jesta is worth about $0.02 at the moment so if you make a lot of comments the 0.02 will add up considerably!!!
So far in these conversation with you I have been rewarded a total of $0.16 already by @jesta.
I make 30 - 50 comments a day. Do I have to pay for this service? It seems like it might be worth it.
No need to pay to use chainbb.com. Just login as you would do for Steemit. Posting is not as convenient as Steemit when it comes to uploading image files and also setting the tags so I just post using Steemit. Otherwise I need to upload images to a image hosting site and link it back the post.
Oh! Yeah, I prefer the drag and drop. But I see your point for comments, so I will for sure get set up over there. I will need to change my methods slightly, but I think I can do it. Thanks for the tip. I really appreciate it :)
@fitinfun have you ever use @originalworks before?
Just include the @orignalworks at the end of your comment on each post and then the post will be upvoted by @originalworks automatically. You should see a comment from the same to say that this post have been upvoted!