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@tipu – a clever way of gamifying curation… by revisesociology

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· @revisesociology ·
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@tipu – a clever way of gamifying curation…
Having received a few @tipu upvotes in the past, which are worth around $1 ATW, I decided to find out what the deal was. 

After a little digging and a brief discord chat with @cardboard, I now find myself leaving those bizarre @tipu comments under various people's posts!

![tipu.JPG](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/revisesociology/Mg05yKSy-tipu.JPG)

Turns out that @tipu is an interesting way of gamifying curation: investors delegate, and receive a 9% return based largely (if not entirely?) on curation returns gained from the account. 

There are about a 100 @tipu curators who look for posts they think are going to be well-rewarded and call the @tipu bot to vote on those posts as early as possible. Most of the curation returns get returned to the investors, and the curators receive small daily pay-outs, based on their voting efficiency – if you return over 100% efficiency, you get a small daily pay-out. 

If you think that I make a [10.5% on my own curation](https://steempeak.com/steemleo/@revisesociology/a-review-of-my-delegation-returns), mainly by auto-voting, then it’s quite easy to see how gamifying manual curation should return a better percentage – thus returning 9% to investors with a little left over for costs, profit and to reward the curators seems reasonable.  

Standard efficiency is 50% - the value you'd get (I think) if only you voted on someone's post. So anything over 50 is good going! 

Here's a [link to the @tipu website](https://tipu.online/curators) if you want to go find out more!

### The @tipu league tables 

![top curations.JPG](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/revisesociology/IXCeR5pT-top20curations.JPG)

@tipu ranks curators based on their percentage returns over a two week period – the higher up the league table you go, the more votes you are allowed to cast and the more daily reward pay-out you receive. 

My rewards for curation from @tipu have varied from around 0.14 to 0.24 Steem a day, with a curation efficiency of between 120 and 135%. I guess the amount varies depending on how well everyone else is doing! 
 
### The benefits of @tipu
I’ve been playing the @tipu curation game now for just over a week, and not only am I really enjoying myself and getting a small daily pay-out, I’m spreading around a few $1 upvotes a day by calling the two million SP @tipu account to vote on various people’s posts which I think are worth that kind of upvote. 

There are certain rules you need to conform to as a @tipu curator, for example:

- No more than 10% self-voting
- Only voting 'quality posts' (although the details here are quite broad!) 
- You have to call a vote at least once a week or you get booted. 

I think they also operate @themarkymark's blacklist, at least I'm sure I remember reading that on their web site, but can't find the reference right now! 

NB I must stress that I'm focusing on curation right now, but @tipu depends on investors delegating to the account - and with a 9% return, you can't do much better, while supporting quality curation! 


### Room for improvement?
While the curators guidelines advise looking for new people to vote on, I'm not sure how far this happens - I think there might be a lot of 'rewarding who you know is going to get you >100% efficiency going on!

Having the league rankings and thus curator pay-out based on a two-week efficiency average could encourage curators to sit back and do as little possible after getting a ‘killer curation’. Maybe rewards need to change to reflect number of votes, relevant to one's level?

### Other @tipu services 

Besides offering a return to investors (via delegation) and to curators, @tipu also allows you to send tips to people for posts in Steem, and a paid for upvote service, although maybe the less said about the latter the better?!? 

### Final thoughts...

Overall I think @tipu is a very clever and fun way of making the most of the 50-50 pay-out split on posts. 

**Find out more:**

The @tipu [website](https://tipu.online/investors_data) 

The @tipu [discord server](https://discordapp.com/invite/NDh35gx) 
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@iansart ·
Thanks for this post I was wondering how it all worked. Might check it out.
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@haikubot ·
<em>Thanks for this post I 
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@pele23 ·
Some of those curators are really working miracles! Impressive stuff! !trdo
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@scholaris ·
@revisesociology

Thank you for your post and breakdown of the @tipu services.  I’ve always wondered what that comment was about and now I know with much better detail.  

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@steevc ·
Good to hear they use a blacklist. We need the votes to go to quality content and I hope Tipu is rewarding some of those who do good stuff, but generally make cents. It's not just about immediate rewards as you need to build an audience who will actually see what you post. I know I can sound negative at times, but I am looking at what can help Steem grow and not just reward the same people all the time. Empowering more curators should help.
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@revisesociology ·
People seem to appreciate their tipu tips, I'm going to start looking for a few new people to upvote with it! 

It does spread curation around I think! 
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