I posted before about why my curation rewards were basically non-existent, so I'm happy to report that I took one user's advice and shifted my strategy a bit which has resulted in more consistent rewards.
Before, I was sticking mostly to the "new" section and aiming for posts that were around 30 mins old. My mistake was that I didn't pay any attention to the reputation of any users when upvoting. So now I go to the "hot" section and first look only for users with reps in the upper 50's and higher(no offense to lower rep folks of course). Then I look for which posts seem to be gaining traction and have been posted within 30 mins to and hour.
Of course, I won't upvote it if I seriously disagree with what the post says or if I just simply don't dig the post. Any comments or suggestions about this strategy? Could it be improved?