The above is my VIP Team Australia Wirex Card. Pity it does not have any steem on it yet.
Anyway, in the past days I have been frustrated that many of my upvotes had no valuation, I did some research and I will now try to recharge my upvoting power to 100%.
Use upvoting to promote content you enjoy, earn some of the rewards from the posts by following some upvoting rules and make it more profitable for everyone.
Some rules to follow:
Read the post before upvoting it or you could be upvoting some utter nonsense.
It is recommended that you upvote your own posts.
Edited, no longer valid: When you upvote within 15 minutes you will allocate 99.94% to the author and get 00.06%.
Edited, no longer valid: When you upvote after 15 minutes you give 50% to the author and receive 50%.
Edited, no longer valid: When you upvote after 30 minutes you will receive 100% of the curation reward.
Visit: https://steem.io/getinvolved/paid-to-curate/
Edit after publication - A commenting Steemer wrote:
mattclarke65 · 4 minutes ago Hey LuckyDigger. The first half hour is tricky and not as you've described. Originally, curation rewards were for being early to upvote content which went on to be popular. The problem was that people had bots set up to upvote posts from popular authors immediately. This left no time for human curators to read the content. To combat this, the rules were changed, now if you vote in the first half hour any curation reward you get is divided between you and the author. If you voted in the first minute, the author gets 97% of your reward, after ten minutes he gets 66% and after 20 mins he gets 33%. Its broken down minute by minute.
The more upvotes you do in a 24 hour period the less each of your upvotes is worth.
It is recommended that you execute a maximum of 24 upvotes per 24h.
Try not to vote on content that is already popular.
Upvote content that interests you and that you think could become popular.
Follow the 10 rules of upvoting!
How to find your current upvoting power?
Go to https://steemdb.com/@lucky.digger, replace my username with yours. It will look something like this:
If you look in the top right hand section, you will see this:
Here you can see my voting power is now 43%. Try to keep it above 70% or many of your votes will have considerably less value than they could have.
If you liked my post, then please follow, upvote and resteem, but please also leave a comment.
Your good friend, Lucky Digger