How to be an amazing curator? But what is a curator exactly? Well he or she, is someone that reads the posts made by others. Like you are doing right now. But when you think something is great and has value, you can up vote it and become a curator. Well… In some way haha. You have to keep doing that over and over again to become a great one! You highlight the good content and the author gets rewarded but you get rewarded as well because you put an effort into reading it. When you make that vote, you give other bloggers the chance to find it quicker because you are identifying amazing content.
You get rewarded in Steem Power. Because well.. Time = money ;)
So what are Curation Rewards?
Like I said in the introduction, it is a reward you receive when you’ve casted your vote on a post made by someone. First off you need to know about the payment on that post. 70% goes to the author. Always. The other 30% goes to all the curators (or voters). The Steem Power you get helps you Power Up your votes even more and in time you will be a better curator.
How to Curate
Minnows blindly vote on everything they see. Sometimes they really get a small amount of rewards. $0.001 small. Each time you cast your vote, your voting power gets drained and when you reach 4 Voting Power your vote isn’t worth much anymore and you won’t get any rewards. So keep your Voting Power high!. Each day you can cast 10 votes on 100% to maintain a high VP. Each day 20% gets replenished and your vote costs 2% VP.
How to become great
- 0 - 15 minutes: The author receives 99% of all curation rewards. So voting now isn't really great at this point.
- 15 - 30 minutes: The author receives 50% and the other 50% will be divided between all curators. This is the best time to vote.
- 30+ The curators get 99%. This would be the best! The great post already have tons of votes and your rewards will be low.