RE: I Have New Things to Tell You!
Nice. I remember seeing your name up around mine on whale(something or other).com (can't remember the name, even though I used it daily for many months), where they ranked curators for their curation payouts relative to their SP. I remember you always being in the top 30, perhaps even lower (20? 10?), and I'm pretty sure that we flipped ranks quite a few times (I believe I ranked as low as top 10 curators for a while).
That said, I respect your approach of manual curation, as I chose the opposite (lazy) route of automatic curation through bot voting on a small list of what I considered under-appreciated, but consistently moderate earning authors, who I figured posed much less curation competition (for vote timing and other relevant things to consider) than the top earning authors.
Do you happen to know if there's a site that compares curation stats that still exists today? I can't recall the name of the site that I used back then, but I'm fairly sure that it went defunct right before I stopped using it (probably close to two years ago).
I think you're talking about SteemWhales.com, which now redirects to SteemitBoard.com and doesn't show curation scores.
I believe Steemwhales was run by @heimindanger and I do believe I saw your name on those curation lists. I was once in the top-10, I think. At one point, I was #2. Not sure if I ever saw #1 or not - I only checked it occasionally.
I mostly switched to some delegated bot voting due to not having much time and with the little time I had, the 25% or less of curation rewards was not worth spending that little time on Steem, searching through massive piles of absolute trash. Instead, I spent time with my baby boy who is almost a year old and I got the BROsino up and running with my partners. And we'll have more releases soon.
But now that things have marginally improved around here, it's time to get back to curating. Hopefully this isn't just a temporary move in the right direction.
Yep, that's the one!
I was one of the 10X per day self-voters (and, yes, I'm ashamed of myself for making that decision) until a down-voting trail found me and forced my hand (into delegating my SP to a promotion bot). The 25% curation reward was a definite turn-off and I came really close to simply powering down all of my SP and liquidating my whole account on more than one occasion.
Good man! You've got another witness vote coming from this guy (not today though, cuz I'm already going to be lucky if I get 4 hours of sleep tonight, but I'll see to it that it happens before the end of this week).
100% on the same page.