What if i told you that you could earn more SBDs AND save the platform from disappearing up its own arse, just by re-thinking what you are doing with your Steem Power?
Earlier this evening I started a blog regarding how two of the top performers in my curation league handle their curation.
Stuff that for now though, this one had to top the bill...
Having read Stella's post, which was a follow on from 
I'm really hoping that the output of this data will show that some of us need a re-think. Lets see...
My suspects - 
vs
A few underlying numbers before we start:
Steem Power: 185,846.360
100% vote value: 15.07$
Voting Power: 94%
Number of votes in last 7 days: 237
Steem Power: 685.79 SP ( 180,783.36 - 180,097.58 )
100% vote value: 0.04$
Voting Power: 70%
Number of votes in last 7 days: 138
Points to note here are:
A similar style of voting towards reputation
Very different styles of voting -
Yes but Asher, snowflake has delegated all his SP out - he doesn't give a shit about curation and its rewards. Why are you showing these graphs? I'll tell you in a minute....
Curation v's Delegation (Weekly reward)
Curation
No surprises here, but I think a pretty good return on investment from
Delegation
Hmmm... no rewards for delegation here for
I make that about 305 SBD for the week.
Now, forgive me here if I've missed something, but doesn't this mean that
That's about 800 SP a month more / 40% greater returns with almost the same Steem Power.
Summary
Who says it's not financially worth it to manually votecontent? I disagree.
Yes, curation takes time, and maybe this amount of time taken by
The spread of vote % by 
Either way, for the good of the platform, I know which whales mind I'd like to be in.
Asher
p.s. 
A snapshot of data used for these reports was taken at 9:00pm CET 11/06/2017