How Can I Earn Curation Rewards?
On Steemit, you can earn rewards through blogging / commenting and by voting too! When you upvote another person’s post, you receive a fraction of the total value of that post in the form of STEEM. These bits of STEEM are called “curation rewards”. In this post, we’ll talk about best practices for earning these rewards and strategies for maximizing your impact.
Breaking It Down
Steemit rewards are split among two groups of people. 75% of the payout goes to the author of the post / comment while 25% goes to the curators. (These “curators” represent anyone who upvoted that post or comment within the 7 day payout window.)
How to Maximize your Curation Rewards
25% of the post payout is split among all of the curators. However, within that 25% there are some strategies to make the most out of your upvotes. Here is how it all breaks down:
If you vote on a post before it turns 30 minutes old, you surrender a portion of your potential curation rewards directly to that author. If you upvote a post before the 30 minute window, rewards are split up differently. Here’s how it looks:
| 0 minutes | 100% of the curation reward goes to the author |
|---|---|
| 3 minutes | 90% goes to the author and 10% to the curator |
| 15 minutes | 50% goes to the author and 50% to the curator |
| 27 minutes | 10% goes to the author and 90% to the curator |
| 30 minutes + | 100% of the curation reward goes to the curator |
Voting Tip: If you are looking to maximize your curation rewards, it is best to upvote after the 30 minute mark. However, if you would like to further support the author that you are upvoting, it's a nice gesture to vote before those 30 minutes have passed.
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That's only part of the story. The reward also depends on the amount of votes before you and the voting power. Waiting until the 30 minute mark doesn't necessarily maximise your reward.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@calamus056/curation-rewards-explained-in-great-detail
So is it correct to say that author awards include things you write both articles and comments you write both on articles and comments you write on comments?
And curation awards are for up votes you make on articles and up votes you make on comments?
All actions you describe can return rewards but in different ways. Only author rewards, for authoring a post, not for commenting, can return rewards in SP (steem power) and SBD, other rewards are SP only. Authoring a post generates 'author' rewards, all other actions are called curation, a form of engagement with the author.
So are comments on comments curation also?
Hi @jefpatat, if you look down below at @fitzgibbon's reply, we linked that article for those who want to dive deeper. These toolkit posts are structured to give the most concise overview possible of topics of interest. We encourage Steemians to look further in the back end if they're interested in learning more and understanding the full spectrum of technical nuances. Thanks for linking!
great info
Thanks! I didnt know about the 0 -30 min differences
Yeah! That's a little known fun fact :)
While it might not make a difference from vote to vote, it can add up quickly!
If it's a hot/trending article it definitely will matter.
Thanks !
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So, does it matter how much I upvote on any given post? I am new to this, so bear with me... Also, it seems as soon as I post something I never earn more than $0.37 cents, then it trickles down. I'm sorry, if this has nothing to do with curation, I'm just trying to figure all this out at once. Your post was helpful.. :)
Hi @docmatrix, we recommend you check out our guide on upvoting and the rewards pool!
Sure this is helpful for new joiners and all correct. You might consider adding that curation is making sense mainly when you have earned or bought a certain amount of Steem Power - the normal newbie is better off to start creating good content, engage and trying to build his network here.
Agreed. Newbies can make much more with good posts and comments. They shouldn't worry about curation rewards to start with. Making connections with people is more important.
We totally agree and we encourage this school of thought. We were motivated to do this post because of how unintuitive/opaque it is for new users that you can earn SP by upvoting and that there is a complex mechanism behind those calculations.
I find comments are sometimes better for newbies than posts. A lot better because you get to not only appear in whales' posts comments but also share in their rewards. 😀 😃 😄 😁 Have a wonderful day!
Thank all of you for you input on this post. I am a newbie and trying to figure out how everything works and have been unsure the best way to get started on steem. So from what I understand, curation rewards are very minimal until you have built up enough steem power. How much do I need to keep in steem power?
Not sure trying to figure it out myself.
Absolutely, great point @uwelang. In general, we recommend people only vote on content they want to support and less in regards to payouts or timing. Curation rewards seemed to be a hot topic of interest that wasn't clearly illustrated for new users so we wanted to cover it in a short post.
Agreed! I like the fact people agree with me too - good for my self confidence :-) - thanks @sndbox
Thank you @sndbox for sharing so much good and detailed informations for all the newbies like me. Keep up the good work!
I understand there was a recent rule changed where the bots can now wait for 30 minutes until they vote. Am I right on this?
We have no experience with bots so unfortunately we can't confirm this... Sorry @johnnyray!
Its mean all author use booster within 30 mints ;P
Thanks so much for this info, just what i needed to get started being a noob and all!
Great, that was a doubt I had, thank you for helping me and everyone! @sndbox Followed!
Thanks @joao-cacador!
Nice post, and Steemit could do with more of this kind of clearly presented content on strategy. Personally, I'm not a fan of the idea that people need to engage in thinking about the timing of their upvote. On a separate note, do you know anything about how the rewards are distributed amongst all of the upvoters - is it a direct proportion of your SP in relation to the total SP of all those who voted? Or is it something more complicated than that? Upvoted and following, btw. Feel free to follow back if you take a specific interest in ICOs. Thanks.
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Thank you.
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Hi @artem-sokoloff! Thanks for your support. You can read a bit on our trail and how to join in the 2nd half of this post.
Thank you very much. I have found instruction in our post.
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Thank you @micay :D
Great tips for newbies. Really useful post. Thanks @sndbox
Thanks for the support @mmgalore!
I see you are all over the tutorials. Really doing your homework on STEEMit.
This was quite helpful and showed me a great path to earn more curator rewards!! THe 30 minute time period is what I did not know about .Thanks for the information it would be of great help to me.
Glad to be of help!
Very helpful! But I'm a historian and have a question: Once the 7-day payout window is over, then what? Does it make sense to upvote "historical" content?
Great question @kenfinkel. After the 7-day payout, voting on their content will no longer give them rewards.
So after 7-days no one (neither author or voter) can get any reward from upvoting?
That's correct! It's purely ceremonial at that point... like facebook or instagram... suddenly that feels kind of old fashioned doesn't it?
Definitely! On the 8th day it's all downright archival. Now there's motivation for shorter, more frequent posts. And recycling in summary clusters of good content. And probably other tactics I'm not yet able to wrap my head around yet. What about rewards for replies? Did you talk about that?
Good questions. I tried posting a lot but then you just spam your followers so I guess about max four quality posts per day is good. 😀 😃 😄 😁 Have a wonderful day!
Yes! Comments (replies) and blog posts act the same way!
Doesn't the 8th day (and beyond) devaluation of posts and the interaction around those posts demotivate the collective creation of content with lasting value? Imagine a Wikipedia-like project at Steemit. It couldn't work, could it?
This is clearly explained
Thanks!
Thank you for the information about curation rewards :)
You're very welcome @leesongyi!
I vote before 30 min .
nice post thanks for sharing :)
You're welcome @youk95!
@sndbox a good brief explanation on a very important topic for new steemians. Thanks.
Glad to be of help!
This is so cool! The GIF's made it easy to understand! Doing great @sndbox! :)
Thanks for the support @jassennessaj!
Great info. Thank you @sndbox.
Thanks @justdentist!
Could you maybe also elaborate on how the curation payout is calculated? It seems that sometimes the curation payout gets much higher, particularly when others make big votes later...
There must be some method to that madness, but that question is why opened and read this post... Can anyone explain it?
Hi @fitzgibbon, a good question! Here's a post that gets into some technicals.
Definitely worth an upvote and a resteem :]
Thank you!
@sndbox, thanks for the useful information.
Glad you found it useful @juliusfatai :D
Excellent post, thank you. I've always had a vague understanding that you should upvote around 27 min, but after 30 is the best for curation. This post is so good, I would have upvoted you at the 1 minute mark so you could get 100% of my upvote! But I was too late. Next time.
Really like the animated gif!
@ironshield
I agree. 😀 😃 😄 😁 Have a wonderful day!
Thanks @ironshield!
Very helpful post..Especially for our new Steemians.Good Work.Thank you.Upvote and Resteemed. Greets from Germany
Danke schoen @germanlifestyle!
Now that's some good information right there,anyone new or old can find this really really useful. Thank you
Many thanks for the support @castiel11 never too late to learn new steemit tricks ;)
@sndbox great info, I was just wondering how it works.
Thanks @redeauxtech :)
Nice post
Thank you!
Thanks for the information it is a useful one for the #newbies
Thank you @divya-82!
realmente llamo mi atencion lo poco que pude entender y use un traductor para entender muchisimo mas, excelente informacion que me hacía falta saber, muchas gracias Saludos!!
Muchos gracias @stefanycaldera :)
Very informative post special for new steemians, I am new so want to know how to check my upvote worth in SBD and how much steem power is necessary for 1$SBD upvote.
Thanks for in courage to ask questions without hesitation @sndbox
@majidawan one great resource to check voting strength and weight is www.steemnow.com
Thank you
Clear, simple, straightforward explanation of curation, @sndbox...aaaaahhh, thank you. Have resteemed.
Thanks @kiligirl!
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Cool. Your information was definitely worth an upvote and a resteem. Im still getting the hang of the ins and outs of steemit. Ive been on here since Feburary but didnt look into it much. Ill settle back and consume your content again. Its definitely worth a re-read or two....., or three.🤓
Thanks.
Thanks @markperandin =)
I've seen many bots and users upvoting without even understanding the content. They are doing this just for the reward. Thoughts on how to prevent that?
Unfortunately, that does happen. Some users are surely doing it to get rewards... but as Steemit grows and matures, reward distribution will become fairer, harder to manipulate, and less hit or miss.
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That's definitely helpful. I love designs and gifs, are those made by you?
Yes! We make all of our diagrams and images. Thanks for the support =)
I finaly understand it now! Thanks!
Glad this post could help!
Thanks for the great info!
We're glad to help!
Nice article thanks!
Thanks for reading!
Do the number of votes on a post decide the percentage of curation that is going to be distributed to curators?
It all depends on the weight (amount of Steem Power) that the voter decides to use!
Thank you this was very intersting
Thanks for reading!
Grata información, se agradece, todavía tengo mucho que leer acerca del funcionamiento básico de Steemit.
Thanks @kevalec!
very useful, thanks a lot !!!
Thanks for reading @realtom!
Thanks that is most helpful article I have seen
Well thank you!
I did not know that and I like that you explained it very well. Thank you for Voting Tip: "If you are looking to maximize your curation rewards, it is best to upvote after the 30 minute mark. However, if you would like to further support the author that you are upvoting, it's a nice gesture to vote before those 30 minutes have passed."
I also thank you for your link to Steemit FAQ page.
Great post :)
Thanks @allesia!