Hello!

I remember when I first heard about the Curation Trail, it took me a while to find information about what it is and what it offers. Figuring out how to follow it took even more time. So, I thought that maybe someone else doesn't know much about it and would like to learn more about this great feature.

What is Curation Trail

First, I'll try to explain briefly what the Curation Trail is.
It’s an automatic upvoting for a post following the curator or the person leading the trail.

Which posts does the curator upvote?

It depends on the curator and the goal of the train. Some curators upvote only the posts within the community. Some choose posts they like. Others upvote based on specific hashtags etc.

Why should you follow the Curation Trail?

There might be other reasons or benefits, but I’ll share my own opinion and experience.

Firstly, you support other authors.
Secondly, you support the train itself.
Thirdly, you receive automatic curation rewards not only in Hive but also in other tokens.

So, you can upvote other authors' posts, without following the Curation Trail, and you’ll still receive curation rewards. And you can even adjust the voting power for each post. But that means you’re doing it manually. But with the Curation Trail, you receive rewards even when you are offline.

I receive very little Hive payouts because I have very low HP (Hive Power). Most of my HP is delegated to others. By the way, I specifically delegated it to my Curation trails and rewards for delegating.

My Curation Trail

At the moment, I’m following 10 Curation Trails. Here are 5 of them:

Hive account@curie. This is the biggest Curation Trail.
Hive account@risingstargame. I love the game.
Hive account@ecency. This is my favourite community, platform, and it has many features that help users.
Hive account@bradleyarrow. A community I’ve only known for a couple of days, but I already like it. It is just like with Hive account@ecency, I enjoy their projects and goals.
Hive account@travelfeed. I love travelling.