RE: SteemAX The Vote-4-Vote Auto-Exchange App: A Hardfork 20 Strategy Guide
This gets divvied amongst the curators, so to beat everyone out you only need to upvote larger than the largest upvote. In other words, if 4 people already upvote at the 15 minute mark, and the largest of those is $0.15 (the others are $0.10 / $0.5 / $0.5), then you would do well upvoting $0.20 or more. The $1.25 will be divvied amongst the 5 curators, but not divided equally, giving you a portion larger than one fifth. So without doing too complicated of math, we already know the curation reward will be larger than $0.25 (because you upvoted larger than everyone else), which is already more then the $0.20 upvote used to get it.
So now let's also say the author of these posts only has an upvote value of $0.05. That's ok. If you create an exchange invite offering 20% of your upvote ($0.20) at a disproportional ratio of 4:1 ($0.20 vs. $0.05), although you are only receiving $0.05 in return, you're also receiving that curation reward of more than $0.25
Not true, this is not how curation maths works :)
https://steemit.com/steemit/@jga/how-to-optimize-your-upvote-mathematical-analysis
I know, it's an oversimplification. Timing is involved and it's a curve, not linear. But SteemAX is automated so it attempts to upvote as close to the 15 minute mark (15 not 30 as of HF20) as possible, something a human cannot always do. And regardless of whether it's a curve or linear, the concept remains the same: those who upvote biggest and closest to 15 minutes will receive the largest share of the curation reward. ;)
And so essentially we agree, the bigger the upvote at the 15 (not 30) minute mark on a quality post will earn the highest curation reward. This is the only concept needed. ;)