My vote is only worth about .11 now above 90% power where I keep it. I almost never vote on the "popular" posts as you think of them. My best reward comes from a post that pays out between $10 and $60 maybe. When I get on a huge post early, I can do ok, but it's much easier for me to find the littler guys to jump on. I make good rewards if I vote at 50 cents and the post goes to $2 even. It's a curation fallacy to think you have to only get on $100 posts - that's actually worse rewards unless you are one of those top 100 big guys.  You get "stomped down" by their big votes.