Boost Your Curation Reward: Follow The Right Authors!
This post is my view on how following the right authors is going to affect your upvoting performance.
Yesterday when I reviewed my curation rewards, I found something interesting. The curation rewards which I received can be classified into two groups. Group A are those having value 0.001 or nearby while Group B are those having value higher than 0.01. Most curation rewards belong to Group A. I checked further and found Group B came from those upvotes I made at the NEW tab when the posts were between 30 minute to one hour old. But not all upvotes done in this manner get a curation return. I noted that it was the author of the post that made a significant difference. So let us look at how to select the right author to follow.
Before upvoting, go to the author’s personal web page by typing http://steemit.com/@authorusername
and observe the following numbers: followers, posts, reputation, curation rewards and steem power in the wallet.
(1) No of followers:
The more followers the author has, the more upvotes he will get and likewise higher SBD value for his post. Study the SDB/Votes ratio for his posts in the past. It will give you a rough idea how much SBD value his followers will provide for his next post.
(2) No of posts:
This number indicates how frequent this author submits his post. Some authors submit only once a fortnight or a week. The wait will be too long and ideally authors who submit posts daily will be a better choice.
(3) Posting Reward Received:
Two figures we need to pay attention to are: daily average rewards and total rewards received in previous week. These figures give you an idea how much SBD value his post carries. Is it tenths of SBD or hundreds or even thousands of SBD? Upvoting while his post is still in the low SBD will produce great curation reward at the end.
(4) Steem power in his wallet:
If he is rich and generous, spend more time reading his post and engage in comments and discussion. Often, authors reward comments. You will be surprised that an upvote from a rich author will give you a couple of SP in return. A 1 SP reward is in equivalent of one thousand curation rewards of 0.001 SP.
(5) Reputation Number:
I guess by now everyone already know what this number means. Unless you really like his post and want to support him, avoid authors with low reputation.
In conclusion:
Selection of authors to follow will help you to improve your curation rewards. Group your rewards into two groups can help you to evaluate your upvoting performance. The more rewards falling into Group B means that you are on the right path and vice versa, you are missing out on posts from good authors.
Give my suggestion above a try and let me know your result. I wish you all the best in Steemit.
Be happy. Keep upvoting, posting and engaging in comments.
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Does this mean that the quality of the content is of no importance when you upvote?
That would be sad, because then the whole purpose of having good content on steemit is lost.
If you are here only for the money making opportunities that steemit offers, then your goals can be quite different from what is considered to be the best thing to do... if voting only on popular or soon to become popular content just for the rewards, then you are missing the point.
My post does not say that the quality of the content is of no importance. In fact, good authors more likely give you quality posts. What I suggest above is it will save you time. instead of randomly read posts, follow a few good authors. Higher curation rewards come naturally. Thank you for your comments.
That appears to be the way things are trending, as the saying goes - "it's not about what you know but who you know." We only need to look at some of the top content which is either mostly about Steemit itself or stroking the egos of existing Internet celebrities who simply post low quality circle-jerk material.
@natenvos the quality of content is completely subjective. I have upvoted posts I believed to be extremely intelligent and well written to see them garner just a few votes. Then, someone will post a picture of their cat doing something cute and it blows up.
I think that's a rough result for the former post, but that's just my opinion. From what I can tell, it's all about who and how many voted you receive. As long as your rating doesn't suck, then content quality is complete subjective.
Which can be frustrating for those who right well thought out posts on topics that are not the mainstream
I agree with the fact that quality of content is subjective. The question I ask myself is if I should upvote posts that I don't find interesting myself.
If I don't find it interesting, I don't vote.
That's how I do it too. But that's not what the post above is saying.
Thanks for the post as many of your points are valid.
When starting out I found that it is nice to follow authors that appreciate and, at least occasionally, tip (that is upvote) good well written comments. In this way you can build a relationship with them. Third parties also upvote good comments and therefore commenting and gaining author rewards often trumps curation rewards. I have made 100's through commenting.
Look for good content by good authors and get involved.
Obviously, I'm very new to Steemit and still trying to understand where I might fit in.
I think a strategy like the one you propose could really help someone get a kickstart into building their wallet, but it begs the question:
Will strategies to build Steem/money leave us with a culture of how to best game the system?
I think the greatest challenge for the platform is the balance of the Freedom of Ideas and the sweet, sweet allure of cold cash.
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