You may know that Steemit has a program to support quality content. Steemcurator01-08 accounts are used for this, as well as booming01-04 accounts. The steemcurator04-08 accounts are managed by the community. The teams that manage these accounts can be found in this post.
Assuming that the average voting power of steemcurator04-08 accounts is 50%, they support at least 100 posts per day. Add here other steemcurator accounts and booming accounts, it turns out that the chances of getting a vote are quite high.
In that case, why do some authors complain that they do not receive support?
For two months I was curating the content with the steemcurator06 account. Now I do it with the steemcurator08 account. Yesterday I had the most difficult day of curation, because it was extremely difficult for me to find quality content. So I think I can give you some useful practical advice.
Tags
The subject I am responsible for is gardening. How do I search for posts? I click on the #garden tag, sort the posts by creation date, and review each one for quality criteria. Then I choose the tag #gardening, etc.
If you want your post to be found, use the right tags. All useful tags are listed by the curation teams in their applications, links to which can also be found here.
One day I stumbled upon a good post about gardening, but the author decided to tag it #steemitnature. With this tag, you have no chance.
Text
There are photos and pictures that speak for themselves. However, if you do not feel that you are a great artist, then add a little text to your images, tell us what you want to convey to us in your post. Curators usually set a limit on the number of words below which they do not support the post.
Very often I come across posts automatically translated by Google translator. I sometimes do this myself, but then I reread and check the translated text. If you do not speak English at all, it is better to write in your native language. Automatic translation often turns into a mess of words, because of which you lose the chance to gain support. It is no problem for the curator to use a translator to read a post written in your native language.
#krsucsess
Curators support only those posts whose authors do not use bid bots. Here everything is clear.
But many authors use the #krsucsess tag. The presence of this tag allows you to receive automatic voting, worth 2 cents. Yesterday, when I was choosing post for support, at least five authors were unable to get a few dollars' vote because they were eager to earn a guaranteed 2 cents.
I know some teams support posts tagged with #krsucsess. But in any case, this is an automatic vote, so you better not take risks.
#steemexclusive
I have already written a whole post about this tag, but I still come across its totally incorrect use. When you tag the #steemexclusive, you tell us all that you've created something original and only publish it on Steemit because you respect the platform and its readers and want to add value to it. If you used the #steemexclusive tag and published this same content in Hive or anywhere on the internet, then you lied to us.
Steemit is not as scary to lose money as reputation. Each curator has a list of authors, written or not, whom he trusts and prefers. If you lied in one, you can lie in another, so your posts will be the last in line for support.
I hope I was able to help you at least a little and look forward to your quality posts.