I am still following the community and reading in the #whalepower tag, mostly to find people to follow. My upvote is currently worth $0.01 to $0.02, but I cast 10-12 of them a day for quality content.
I only manually curate when I do, I believe in reading the posts that get my vote.
I have seen positive growth from using the tag, this is one good curation trail.
That's good