Why I think 99% of Steemians get the WRONG ideas about curation rewards
As a newbie who have played Steemit for merely two months, I have been trying to do everything to earn as much money as possible. I post almost every day and try to make connections with people, as well as joining meaningful projects like Minnow Support Project and #whalepower tag. Here is the proof of my hard work:
More than 1500 posts I have made and more than 700 followers, I bet I am doing better than average minnows. It also shows HOW HARD I have worked on this platform.
You can also figure out how I am doing these days by looking at this chart on steemwhales.
However, I can tell you that I just focused on thinking new topics to post every day and that made me a bit tired, and sometimes I run out of new ideas. Most importantly, I completely overlooked the POWER OF CURATION REWARDS, with more than 850 SP now, I started to realise its power.
If you are a really good curator, sometimes you can earn MORE than upvoting your own posts or comments. Most importantly, it's much easier! It's quite frustrating to get a few cents for a post that has spent you so much time and effort, isn't it? On the other hand, you just need to press a button when you discovered some quality content, nearly effortless!
But here's the problem, how can we get the most curation rewards?
Most of us know that it's ideal to vote around 27-30 minutes so that you can get around 90%-100% of the curation rewards, but how to choose which post to curate?
I guess most of us have the following experience(I did too):
We follow some great authors, for example, @sweetsssj, and we notice that her new post just uploaded around 30 minutes ago with less than $100 rewards. I guess most of us would think that her post usually worth more than $1000 and it is an awesome opportunity to earn some curation rewards WITHOUT EVEN READING HER POST. But I can tell you that YOU ARE TOTALLY WRONG.
Here is the proof, both posts I upvoted with 100% voting power 30 minutes after posting:
WHATTTTT? Upvoting a $25 post can get much much more curation rewards than a $1000+ post!???
Yes, it's obvious and it's not hard to understand, but we just IGNORE it all the time. You have to share the curation rewards with a thousand and more people. Ask yourself why Steemit needs to give you much curation rewards if EVERYONE KNOWS SHE IS A GOOD AUTHOR, you made NO DISCOVERY OF GOOD CONTENT, zero contribution to the whole community.
I am not saying that you should not like the well-known authors' posts, good posts deserve upvotes, but don't think that you can earn much curation rewards. If you want to achieve more, you should eagerly look for other good contents.
I guess most of us have experienced a feeling like "Why I get only a few bucks(or even cents) for a post that I put so much effort in? WHY NO ONE UPVOTES ME? Why others can get dozens, hundreds or even thousands? This is such an unfair platform!"
Well, then I can tell you that YOU SHOULD BLAME YOURSELF for making this situation, we all help make it. It's because we just focus on making our own posts, hoping others to upvote it but at the same time we never seriously read others' posts and upvote them.
So, are you willing to make a change today? Try to read others' post and eagerly looking for good content on Steemit.
Want to earn more Curation rewards?
The simpliest way to do so is FOLLOW ME, as I will always try to write and resteem good quality posts only from now on! And I am not a well known author. :p Thanks for reading it, let's make discover good contents and make Steemit a better platform together.
At last, if you want more people to see this post and change the game, RESTEEM IT!!!
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玩了Steemit兩個多月,我每天都嘗試發新文,寫關於不同題目的東西,旅遊、陰謀倫,介紹帖、教學帖、銀幣、投資、什麽我懂的都寫過了。這非常有趣,每天都要把腦袋中最後一絲想法也壓搾出來,分享給大家,也可能是製造區塊鏈上的垃圾,純粹自娛吧。
不得不說金錢Steemit的魅力的確十分驚人,我也沒想過我每天能寫這麼多字,都是逼出來的。這兩個月寫的字大概已比以往四年還多,相信以一條微不足道的小魚來說也算是小有成績吧。
每天寫文章說真的真的挺累的,也有沒有靈感的時候吧。
回到重點,談談curation rewards,也就是最近Steem Power開始有點增長才發現curation rewards的威力,有時候還比投自己票賺得更多rewards呢,當然賺的都是SP啦。
但可能我們大部分人都誤解了curation rewards的真正意義。你有試過坐在屏幕前等30分鐘投甜心大神的帖子,只為了賺取curation rewards 嗎?這沒問題,但你真的每次也有看她的帖子內容嗎?
看上面的圖你就能發現可能你投一個最後只值$25的帖也比投一個$1500的帖所賺的curation rewards還多。畢竟可有1400多人和你瓜分奬勵,而另一邊廂則只有17人。我不像O大哥會從代碼找線索,就只能傻傻地比較啦。 /_\
當然我不是說不要說不要把票投出名的作者或甜心大神啦,我可不想被誤會,會死人的 lol,好帖當然應該得到它們應有的奬勵,只是我們也不該忘記在Steemit的文字海裏找出真正高質的內容,貢獻社區之餘也好順便賺一下奬勵。
P.S. 小弟不是出名的作者,我的文章都沒多少人拜讀哦,要砸就把票砸我吧!
這次應該不會又弄錯出大糗了吧?我都有心理陰影了。 T^T
curation rewards 是个很复杂的话题
如果计算的好的话,可以获得比正常点赞收益高很多的回报
但是计算起来太难
比如一个因素就是你无法估算别人的行为
以甜心的帖子为例,30分钟甚至20分钟的时候已经有很多人抢投了
虽然后边点赞的人多,但是你分出去的也不少
相比之下,点没人点的帖子,至少还可以获得25%的点赞回报:)
另外,SP不多的时候,点赞回报其实也很少了
所以与其去追求点赞回报,不如去广交朋友啦
一家之言,仅供参考
點讚也是廣交朋友的一種渠道吧 xD,點的好還有回報就當作是額外收獲啦。 的確挺難計算的。雖然以我目前的Steem Power還是很低應該沒多大用處,但對海豚或鯨魚來說就很多啦。總的來說應該選些價值被低估也少人點讚的好帖子就沒錯了,也令作者容易注意到你,長大後可能也會報恩,一舉兩得啦嘻嘻嘻。
O大哥所言非虛,社交網絡嘛當然廣交朋友才是王道!!
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This post provide very little detail about how curation reward actually work.
Have a look at this one :
https://steemit.com/steemit/@calamus056/curation-rewards-explained-in-great-detail
Hah! I was going to mention this post here too but couldn't remember the link, lol. Thanks doing it :)
Good info, thx
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@htliao
I like this Content.
@bullionstackers Curator for #whalepower Tag.
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Thanks so much, I am a great admirer of your #whalepower tag as it is so helpful for minnows, so happy! :)
I need all the support I can get to help others.
Don't see you much in my posts.
Sorry there are too many posts appear on my feed and I normally just check out the posts in the cn community these days as we are growing, I will pay more attention to your posts. :) Actually I remember that I have upvoted and leave a comment on your new whalepower art-work design.
I have also found good curated rewards just by upvoting and following @bullionstackers and members of the #whalepower tag. Both @bullionstackers and @paul-gillbanks curate manually so if your content attracts them, you can be certain that they will follow up in time.
The key to making a large curation award is to vote before many other people vote after you. But you still have to be mindful of the 0-30 window as well. It becomes like a game.
The best scenario is to find a hidden gem and vote on it at 30 minutes, then many whales vote that post into the heavens after you.
I've made as much as 40 steem from a single curation before.
The Best still upvotes on comments
Teach me my master @neoxian
That's an ideal situation, so hard to encounter lol That's crazy for making 40 steem for a single post!!!! Can't even imagine it, Great job!
Thank you for the tip. As a newbie, its hard. Thanks for #whalepower for the support though:)
Hopefully one day, I could see such returns from curation :)
Definitely have much to learn from the leaders like @neoxian
Thanks for sharing this tactic. I have been wondering how exactly curations work to get maximum payout. I have heard some accounts earn by pure curation. I can see how this is a fun game. I'll be cruising the new section about 30 mins down the feed for potential diamonds. Thanks again!
This is sooo true! I just realized about this a few days ago u.u but I guess is not too late xD it's sad I can't resteem this u.u
Thanks! I am gonna make a post about my curation strategies later today. You can resteem that if you like it after reading it.
Perfect! Thank you very much :D
Extremely useful content @htliao. I'm in my second week and I identify with many of your concerns. I hope I can grow up in the platform as you already did, but it's true it's difficult to create always new and useful content. In my case I've never had much success although I tried hard with very prepared content.
I'll follow you to continue learning!
Thank you :) It's always hard in the beginning but if you keep posting useful and quality content your work will finally get noticed someday.
I'll keep working on it :)
thank you for this! I have been on the platform only a week and a half and in that time I have made posts, commented and tried to find good content. I also try to make the effort to write good comments not just 'nice post' or 'good job'.
It's good to read this and feel validated that I am doing the right thing.
One thing I have encountered a lot is unoriginal content. People posting photos or video they have found online, and knowing it's good content they try to get votes for it. I always skip these as I feel they are not in the spirit of what steemit is about.
If we all curate and support each other this platform could be a wonderful experience for everyone. Definitely following you!
Thanks for following me :), for unoriginal contents cheetah and steemcleaner would do their job to catch them. Actually dolphins and whales would be quite careful about the originality of the posts they vote for, it's hard for plagiarised contents to get a good payout.
That's good to know. Thanks for replying, I look forward to reading more of your work :)
I like you, I am very happy to read your Writing, what you say 100% right ..! Thanks for refreshing my mind, before I also complained about this, and until now little has not changed.
I will try to be patient, and will follow what you say and I will follow you and I beg you can teach me
Thank you.
Thank you for your support :) Let's make some changes together and find out more valuable contents on Steemit!