What would be the best way to make money if you were temporarily delegated a nice sum of SP?
- I was going through some old posts, and someone asked that question and I did not have the answer...
BTW congrats on the 0.03 not-dust-anymore vote achievement! That's my biggest goal right now... I'm well into 0.02, but that can still be dust I guess...
Well that's a very good question. And truthfully I don't think my answer may be the best. Although I have recently been delegated 150 SP total from to amazingly awesome community members here. I never really thought of it as a way for me to gain SP. I was only looking at it as a way for me to increase my vote so that I could help other people. But, back to my answer because it is a great question. And after you mention it, I am wondering the same thing. I have figured out the best way for me personally to gain SP. I have spent a lot of time finding several people who post good content, and then in an effort to help small people like me they up vote their own post and don't send bots in to nab all the curation. I have also then figured out overtime that a couple of these people also happened to post at certain hours when most of their other regular voters either aren't paying attention, or are at work, or sleeping. On one account in particular sometimes I am the second vote at 28 minutes or so. This gives me a pretty good piece of the curation for that post. And just in case you're wondering his upvote on his own post is normally between 15 and $17. So it ends pretty good for me. The other thing I do is I interact with the community as much as I can. As you can see here as I respond to you with a novel. The highest that one of my comments has ever been voted by a single vote is almost $2. So I would say that I would continue myself, personally along this path. Please let me know if this has been helpful or not. And thank you so much for the question. As your entry head is definitely accepted. And thank you so much for the congratulations. Keep working hard at it and doing what you do and you'll get there. And as always my dear friend you get all of my love sent your way.
I think that's a good answer! Earlier I read @protegeaa's post about Front Running Curation Bots. A clever way of beating the bid bots and cashing in on some good curation. In my comment there I mentioned that it didn't have to just be bid bots, it can be accounts like OCD who end up with really big organic votes and it can also be, as you mention, those who upvote themselves nicely.
A couple quick points like curation. You may already know them.
It is kind of a linear scale based on time. When somebody releases a post, if you vote on it within the first few minutes you will get almost no curation. The longer you wait, up to 30 minutes the larger the curation will be that you get. And yes, you should definitely try to get in before any of the big voters for the cleanup Bots. It is normally best to vote between 20 and 30 minutes. It's almost like gambling. You just hold off as long as you can and try to pick a good time to vote. Other than that I don't know much. 😁