I've learned something new a few weeks ago, where I was convinced (after the HF troubles) that I read over and over to not vote within 15 mins after posting, you can really  grow curation rewards even with accounts as little as 50 to 100 sp in them. Where those accounts barely had 0.02 curation weekly before, they now have 0.1 to 0.2 per account. These are accounts I play Steemmonsters with, and I thought I'd might as well try to get some SP by curation. 

Of course this is nothing compared to people with a higher stake, like yours 4000, I don't even come close with my own account here, but my account is around 750 SP (not sure at the moment because of delegation to another account of mine) and I have around 1.3 SP weekly curation earnings. And I don't go to much trouble to get that.

Imagine what it would be if I had 6x this amount of SP... Then it would still be a nice way of extra earnings.

Curation rewards are not an easy thing to figure out, fortunately right now I do not need to figure them out, but when you get close to the dolphin level and you want to keep growing your account it does become necessary I guess to figure it out.

Hi shepz. Wouldn't it be more profitable just to set the auto vote on people you know already as you should make a bigger return and kind of know what you are voting on as well. 1000 SP should give you 4 SP per week so you have 4300 odd so call it 16 SP per week which is 64 SP after 4 weeks. You would still be able to do some manual curating as well by doing this. Good to see you experimenting though and working out what is the most profitable for you.

If money can create itself from just inflation, it will have no value.
When those 'greed at any cost' whales figure out that getting money from nothing is not sustainable, steem will have an even harder time climbing out of this grave that greed has dug for us.

If you want a passive income sell your vote to @steemflagrewards.
They pay exponentially more than those others you mentioned, AND they perform a vital service in the eco system, fighting abuse.

They paid me .262sbd for a few .045sbd flags, cash.
Before that each flag comment had already received a vote woth 125% of its value.
I was also set as a beneficiary on a post that paid out beneficiary rewards.

AND, I discouraged abuse of the system, mostly bid bot abuse.

You got to do what you do, but leave the darkside behind.
Their days here are numbered.
Their leader has already had to hide the fact that he is still here because the rational adults grabbed the wheel before we went off the cliff.

Speaking of, how did i do getting that ball rolling?
[Memes ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme)can be a bitch, if you are on the wrong side of them.


You make good content, shep, alot of folks here do, but the greedy bastards are still given more respect than their contributions are worth due to the steemizens' love of the old ways.
Let it go, the skills you learned becoming a success under the old rules will hinder you under the new.

The new boss won't be one, let alone the same as the last.

Interesting mate thanks for doing the leg work on the experimenting.

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With 3000 SP i have active i made 24 STEEM in 30 days from curation and i still get to keep most of my SP. If i had 4000 SP i think i could get to 35 STEEM which is just around 10% worse then your gains this month.

And....

1. I wouldnt partake in simple money making from inflation.
2. I wouldnt help ruin the trending page.
3. I wouldnt help bot owners/whales make more money.

All that and you make just slightly more money then i do.

EDIT: Apparently cryptocoffee is making almost 3 times what i am on curation and more then you are getting from delegating. Worth to check out what he is doing.

You're doing it wrong. I get more curation rewards with 11x less that SP.

With my tiny SP I'm getting 3.7 Steem per month.

With 3770, I'd get 37 Steem.

Try to vote for people when their posts are around 11 or 12 minutes and you'll see your curation earnings increase a lot!!!

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