I think this is probably good advice - that I am not following. At all. I probably should, but I'm not even giving a penny right now with my lowly SP. After doing some research when I first got on the platform, I realized that #1 - chasing curation money is a waste of time for now and #2 - curation rewards are going to be extremely low one way or another until hitting 500 and above, as you pointed out. Short of delegations, that is likely going to be a looooong ways away for me, even though I have switched to posting with full power-up instead of half and half for now.
You'll probably roll your eyes and groan when I say this by the looks of the post, but I pretty much just use mine as 'likes' right now for the most part. It's more of a show of support than anything. I did play around with following a trail and am still following one; it was a bit of a test that admittedly, I have not followed up on as much as I should have.
The one thing I have an issue with is upvoting my own content. I get why people do it, and I have seen a lot of arguments on both sides as to whether it should be done or not. I personally have not upvoted anything of my own. I also think there is a caveat to that - if you have SP delegated to you, I would think that it would definitely be frowned upon to use it for yourself. What are your thoughts on that situation? 🤔
RE: Steemit Strategies - Understanding Curation Rewards