What is curation? How can you be a great curator? Well essentially a curator is someone that reads post made by others and when you think that post is valuable you can upvote it and leave a comment. You start to highlight great content and get rewarded by doing so! When you cast your vote on that post you help other bloggers with identifying great content that they can read as well. Thus the good content comes forward and the crappy content stays behind.
Because you spend your time reading all this post you get rewarded because it costs you time and saves time for others. Time = money!
So what are my curating rewards?
A curation reward is a reward you receive when you’ve casted your vote on a post. At least 70% of the rewards you gave to the author will go to the author. The remaining 30% is divided between the author, the curators and the commenters. When the post is getting payed out to the author, you’ll receive your curating reward in the form of Steem Power. The Steem Power helps you power up your votes even more and thus you’ll become an even better curator.
I want to curate! How?!
Well you can vote blindly on every post you see and hope you get curating rewards but it isn’t that simple. Each time you vote it reduces your Voting Power and when your voting power drains out you aren’t able to give any rewards to the author, thus yourself. Each time you cast a vote on a post or comment on 100%, your voting power decreases with 2%. So to stay very profitable you can cast 10 votes each day on 100%.
Your voting power replenishes at a steady rate in 5 days time. This is from 0% to 100%. So each day you will replenish 20% of that voting power.
Tips to become great!
You can be the very best at curating and you have to know a bit of technical details for that.
- 0 - 15 minutes: The author receives 99% of all curation rewards. So it’s not profitable for you to cast your vote at this time.
- 15 - 30 minutes: The author receives 50% and the other 50% will be divided between all curators. This is the best time to vote. Even better when the post is amazing and there aren’t much votes on it yet!
- 30+ The curators get 99%. This is the best to do but in almost all cases, the great post already have tons of votes and your rewards are low then.
For getting maximum rewards you have to vote on something that is 30+ minutes old and has 1 vote. In the upcoming 7 days it gets tons of votes and you get a lot! Yet this will not happen. So cast your vote on at 16 minute mark. But first check if the post has value and people will actually vote on it ;)