Using steemstats, I noticed that voting for boosted posts means almost no curation awards in return when your voting power is much lower. In order to maximize my curation award, I decided to vote only posts which are not boosted.
On a highly boosted post, I earn only 0.001 to 0.002 Steem power:
When voting a high-quality post early, which was not boosted, I can earn easily 7.5 - 15 times more SP:
So if I vote 10 posts which are boosted from the first second on, I will earn 0.01 - 0.02 SP curation award per day.
But if I vote only posts which are not boosted from the first second on, I can earn up to 0.15 SP a day.
The reason for post creators to buy vote bots and let them vote early as possible is the reason that voting within the first 30 minutes shifts most of the curation award from the voter to the author. In the same time, your curation award is strongly reduced when you vote after the vote bots with a much lower voting power.
So observe your voting reward and improve your earning by:
- go to steemstats.com
- enter your steemit user name here:
- go to Recent Activity and select Only display posts voted on
- try to vote now different kind of posts
- compare the author payout with your voting power and vote if it is not already to high
- try to vote early as possible, but know that your curation award is reduced the first 30 minutes:
- 0 Min after creation 100 % of the curation award to the author
- 10 Min after creation: 66% to the author and 33% to the voter
- 20 Min after creation: 33% to the author and 66% to the voter
- 30 Min after creation: 100% of the curation award to the voter
Good helper for finding posts which are not boosted:
There is also a vote reward calculator https://steemcalculator.github.io/, but it is not working most of the time.
Good analysis. I wonder, then, is it against one's self-interest to get posts boosted, because then they become unattractive to curators? The bot economy makes the game-mechanical layer of Steemit quite a headache... >.<
It depends on the amount. But boosting your post with more then 100$ in the beginning, means that you are not caring about your curators. They will earn minimal curating awards, so they better do not vote.
Sounds like I might want to let my @qurator tier lapse down to 2 when my lease expires, then. (Not that I could afford the necessary SP delegation to crank it back up under the new rules anyway...)
The timing is important, when voting or boosting later (not at post creation) all voter that voted already, will recieve higher curation awards
Yeah, that makes bid bots like @qustodian more valuable than automatic upvote subscriptions, given you can control the timing of their boosts.
Thanks for sharing good info
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