I see numerous blogs discussing Curation rewards, which are explained in the Steemit FAQ pages as follows:
Well that sounds pretty sweet, how much do i win?
Err, run that by me again in English please?
So you vote on a blog (or a comment), at 15 minutes, you get 50% of 25% split between 200 other voters divided by your birthday. The simple answer is, you don't get a lot at all.
Lets see how you are likely to be doing with various amounts of Steem Power.
(images from the wonderful https://steemdb.com by @jesta )
The big cheese - @trafalgar
Weighing in at over 500,000 banked Steem Power, a Curation total of over 1800 SP for the past week, Wow! And wtf is your point @abh12345? Sorry, bare with me... Next up...
The (potentially smelly) cheese - @gigafart
Carrying close to 95,000 Steem Power and busting a move through 215 SP for the past week, a nice little earner for him. Again Asher, that's some cracking Steem Power earnings there, i'm struggling to see where you are going here... hang on, i'm getting there...
The slightly cured Cheese - @mindhunter
With over 11500 Steem Power in the coffers, a tidy sum for any a dolphin or minnow, our man in the north of the UK gathered approximately 16 SP for his weeks curation. Hmmm, 16 as a % of 11500, is 0.0014%.... Anyway, still better than a kick in the nuts right?! Yeah i suppose so, but what about one more example...
The cheesed off - @abh12345
This minnow is feeling pretty proud of his 966 Steem Power, and it's earned him about 2.7 SP for the past week. 2.7 Steem Power, cool... well... not really!
One more example? Go on then!
The babybell - @dozjia
A true Minnow with barely 20 Steem Power, forced to use 100% power without the 'slider' on the main steemit.com site, this fish has managed a grand total of .017 SP for the week.
This is where you are as a new starter, and this is why aiming for curation rewards is a fruitless task in the beginning.
You can try for the up-vote at 30 minutes, and the blog may go from $50 to $1000 in earnings, but you will only get .002 reward, if you are lucky. Don't waste your time, for now.
The alternative?
- Read the whole post
- Have something intelligent/funny to say about the post?
- Is it early into the lifetime of the post? (to catch the author waiting for replies)
- Vote! And make a winning comment.
A possible outcome to this?
An up-vote to your reply worth 1/2/3/10 weeks of well timed content curation as a Minnow with less than 100 Steem Power.
Thanks for reading, spread the message if you find this blog useful.
Asher