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Yeah I usually go to photography/travel and hot section, but I was willing to waste my time to see if there is something undervalued, hidden in the new-section. And there wasn't. Though obviously I can't keep scrolling it all day every day.

the only utility to it that I could see is if you wanted to maximize your curation rewards for some strange reason and wanted to try to vote on posts that were a certain number of minutes old that you thought would do well. But curation awards don't seem worth much effort.

I don't actually care about curation rewards, they are such a small revenue, it's much better for me to use my time to work on my own blog. When I like something, I like it, no matter if it's under 5 minutes, or over 35, doesn't make a difference to me. Different story if I had tens of thousands in Steem Power.

If that was me I would be too busy upvoting myself to upvote anyone else!