Sometime over the last few days... we had an issue. I have a little bit more I would like to say!
Thanks?
I know that first bit of clickbait, sorry. We did have a thing come up between myself and members, I took it to the platform and was wrong for two reasons.
Firstly, I had a concern, not a problem.
Honestly, as soon as I typed that... I don't need a #2
Several Days Later
Quick admission. I turned into a flaggot (love the term 
I flagged several of 
Moving on... yesterday, after several days removal (semi-removal.... everyone who leaves still looks (hopes?) to see what steemit is doing) I came back. I removed what flags I could, and just started looking at what I enjoyed.
Little Injured Warrior Mentality
That's what I am going to call it. What I mean is that frame of mind we get into where we are so convinced we are right, or righteous, that it's somehow damaging to the platform as a whole if allowed to continue.
Thankfully, that mentality had lifted, I read some stuff by some people I like... and just felt better and voted that way.
Today
Want to know something weird? Today I look at my curation rewards, and there's a pretty big difference from before. It's not that I haven't tried to spread my vote around to new people, but I was always just a bit more focused on certain authors, as some are.
Using and spreading my votes without thinking about my game plan... I am getting a pretty sizable jump.
Irony Is Not Lost On Me
I know that this very likely is a direct result of this Curie group. Actually, let me get more specific. 100% it is the author... I enjoyed what I read a lot, but Curie is also working hard to recognize this effort as well.
So, this group I was kind of prepared to mud wrestle with in downtown steemitville.... is making me more money. Even if it's indirectly, people look, people report.... they just have a reason to look.
We need people to look...
Wrapping It Up
I guess a bot makes it easier, personally I didn't have a ton of fun, or much luck trying to play the timer game. Yesterday, I went after what I liked, and I didn't lose. I didn't even use my entire voting power!
For the numbers part of it. I am about 1100SPish and I was mostly getting .001SP curation rewards trying to vote close to 30 on a recognized name. Today, it was just a bit more..... .008, .005 etc....
Project Curie kinda means something a bit different to me now, they're increasing my curation take as well... simply by beating them to something great. HAHA CURIE TAKE THAT!
SteemShout
Again, and honesly I cannot stress this enough. If you haven't... take a look at
Steemit dude No. 4
I am not sure where to begin... but I enjoy the way he laughs at the stupid shit that just annoys most everyone else. His work has seriously made my day more than once and is excellent brain bleach.