That's interesting. I know you have lots and lots of curation rewards, so you are clearly an active and skilled curator! But we aren't too far apart in the number of upvotes we've handed out - at least according to Steemwhales.com and Steemitboard.com.
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That is probably the case. If you hand out votes too quickly your voting percentage is drained and your vote is no longer as beneficial for the people you vote for. Also, I don't care about curation rewards. They are not that significant unless you have a lot of power. The most I've made from curation rewards in a week ever was around 80 steem power. Though I stopped doing that method as it was not my interest. That was 80 steem power when I was around 16K or 17K steem power.
To make the most curation rewards you kind of play the game at picking the things you think will be worth the most and being early to that vote. I didn't exactly do that so I could have gotten more.
I decided that only voting for things I am actually interested in and encouraging people to continue to make things and talk about things I am interested in is what I prefer, whether that post is going to be popular or not is irrelevant to me. It was popular with me. So if Steemwhales says I have a lot of curation rewards keep in mind I don't so much care about getting tons of curation rewards. I do like to keep my voting % as high as I can keep it so my votes that I do tend to give out are worth more.
You can check that at steemdb.com, or busy.org shows it right on your profile.
EDIT: Though you only started a month after I did, so it wouldn't surprise you to have more votes than me. I was part of steem-trail for awhile and voted with them. I did that up until about a week after HF19 which is likely why I have good curation rewards. After HF19 I noticed they were draining a lot of my voting pool, and they were mostly voting on all of the -trail posts and with a pretty good payout. This gave me decent curation rewards, but it left me not being able to vote for who I wanted to, plus I didn't think me doing that was going to be about them using my power to vote on those trail posts. My problem with the trail posts is they always made far more than the people they were reporting on. I didn't think that was right. I would rather they had used my power to vote on the other people's posts they were writing about in their trail blogs so I pulled out of that a few weeks ago.
Just so you know -- I have drained my voting power too far, so I'm going more to your percentages! I agree about the curation rewards, too. I just vote on the things I like.
And thanks for that perspective on the SteemTrails. They -trails used to upvote other people's posts a lot more, for sure. I think it got to be too much of a burden for the higher level folks to decide about upvoting the recommended posts from all the different trails. There are some changes I'm not so sure of, myself, like the upvotes on the -trail posts, and how some trails seem to author a lot of posts that don't look very different from what any other person would write. But I sure like the @foraging-trail!
I like the concept of the trails a lot. I was just monitoring how they were voting using my account as I was following them on Streemian and I almost exclusively saw them up voting all the various trail posts with 50% of my vote after HF19 and not actually up voting the people that the trail was talking about. I don't see this as particularly helpful to the community, or the trail themselves. It also was blowing through my voting power quickly. I watched it for about three days and then decided to stop following on Streemian.
Yes, my curation rewards have been cut in half, but I don't care about curation rewards as much as I care about a good community. I also don't want to curate based solely on what is going to earn me the best curation reward.
I'm looking forward to having communities here on Steemit. I'm not sure how much they will connect with the trails. My hope has been that active trails will be the basis for some of the communities.
SteemTrail has just started distributing their trail coins again to people managing the individual trails. Each trail curator can do as they want with that distribution. But good, active community builders would use their distribution to reward folks that are active in their trail or to have community events. I'll be doing that with the @foraging-trail, for sure. And with the @gardening-trail, as I get back to that one, too.