I was wondering about curations. I have enough free time to be a curator and have some ideas, mostly around the Photography topic (lot of nice and undiscovered photos on Steemit actually). Was looking for a post that explain how it is the question of Delegate SP and who I should ask for it and explain my idea but.. as far as I see you can just rent the SP (you have to pay) or to know someone with a lot of SP (a whale) who give you some for free but it is not my case. There is no way to do it, only paying or if you are "connected" in some way.
Edit: I believe that getting rewards from rewarding others is more gratifying than rewarding yourself ;)
That is how it works in this world. Networking is the key here. But maybe just ask? The other day I was chatting at Steemit.Chat and some whale told me that he would give his SP in delegation for a committee to fight the bad on Steemit when done in a correct way.
To get SP for curating, well you need to establish yourself as a quality curator, than I;m sure you will find members who either delegate SP to you or configure some vote bot to follow your votes with their votes.
I'm of the same opinion!
New found! A bot for comments, up-vote you if you had not up-voted yourself ;)
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@gentlebot/hello-steemit-i-m-the-gentlebot
I found that one as well. There is another one from the same user, check latest post on @gentlebot. I noticed one post, @gentelbot voted for a lot of the comments. Not sure what independent algorithm this bot is running, but that does not seem to independent from account or even post. But this maybe just a glitch and startup problems. I hope so, otherwise this is another scam starting.