Excellent post, thanks for the read!

>We can only try to find an appropriate way to somehow recognize all of them and their creativity.

I think communities with curators more concentrated curators on them will do really good later on. We have to remember that the daily output of Steem is limited, but not SteemDollars, the more curators we have with more voting power, the wider they will be able to distribute the daily pool to reward efforts and creativity in most directions and topics.

I myself ever since I started my curation trail have been trying to vote on as many posts as possible and follow as many authors as possible, no matter the topics they post about or kind of photos they like to upload. I also tend to shift from some newcomers to others once I feel they have started to receive a good and constant posting rewards from automated votes and are therefor "oldtimers" already. It feels great to be able to help out newcomers cause you still remember how it was for yourself in the beginning and how the lack of curators might have given no visibility to your posts and demotivated you from posting more often. While at the same time being able to see all these other authors getting consistent rewards it makes it even worse at times if you are striking out. 
At the same time though you have to read through a lot, either before you start trusting the author or have to try and make sure its not a plagiarist post. I like how well the system already works though considering how early on we are here still and with more people and active curators it will become much better. :)

Thanks for this post Marly ! I wonder where you take the time....lol

I upvote all the kind comments people take time to leave but :
*  I'm fairly new here and have not widely as many as you have and yet, it's a lot of time because I care the interaction and Thankyouing for a nice appreciation is the minimum of education and politeness,
and I can't help but had one blue creature or anything joyful, so sometimes I even go create the right charactere for the answer ...Hell, I'm THAT crazy , but I enjoy doing it as long as I  still can do it, that is to say as long as I have not yet twenty comments on my posts =D
* I have no voting power, as far as I can see ;-)  I think I used to have a tiny little  but now I have none, so I wonder if I did something wrong with the upvotes... I wonder  also **what is it you call a 100% upvote** Marly..? can you vote at a lower percentage ? if yes, what the hell does it mean and where can you settle that ? it's not the first time I read that in a post and now I feel to ask you because I didn't understand it *bymyself*...lol if there is an answer somewhere, I apologize...didn't find it 
Hey , here is a blue one for you to thank you in advance :![up&resteemedredim.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYi8L6Jw9Qy4kYY944Z3jD8a8kRQ4P4eN7ChmczHY9dGi/up%26resteemedredim.png)

I try to post once per day, then give some attention to up voting. I am a creature of habit so I have certain bloggers I give more attention to. I am also a busy person and have a life away from steemit that I really love. I don't ever want to find myself sitting in front of my monitor reading and up voting all day and all night. So bottom line, I do what I can and try not to think too hard about it.

I don't have a lot of voting power, and I spend a lot of my time active on Steemit while at work, so making blog posts is usually out of the question during the day.  I spend my daytime curating, and commenting, and then when I can, Ill post a blog sometimes in the evening.    I do like you do, I actively peruse the new posts, not just the people I follow, looking for great *unique* content that grabs my attention.  I think a welcoming environment is essential to growing this community.  I also don't use bots, because I want my vote to be a representation of me, not representative of an autonomous AI in order to solely grow my SP.  

To answer your final question __"Now I'd love to know how you manage to distribute your voting power 'fairly'?__

My answer....there is no ___"fair"___ way to distribute your voting power.  You said yourself when you vote for "A", sometimes you'll miss "B".
I think we have to do what we can with what little time we are given, and whatever resources we have available to us.  

just my thoughts, hope that gives you some clarity on how others process this responsibility.

Thanks

i like to upvote comments and it has me at a lower voting power all the time lol

Hi @surfermarly, I was reading the comments and I think all logic replies are given. What crosses my mind is that the fact that you are even thinking about how to devide your attention and votingpower, shows you are a wonderful person someone would love to be friends with. 

Saying this, let's look at it as being a friendship. In "real life" you have a group of friends that you like being with. Since there are only 24hrs in a day and you got stuff to do, you can not devote all your time to them. But you follow them anyways, so it's ok. 

In this group of friends there are a couple that you hang out with most of the time. This equals quantity (hopefully also quality haha). 

Then there is this one friend you only get together with once in a couple weeks or months, but when you do it feels safe and familiair and you are having a great time. This equals quality.

And there are these friends you hang around with because they are actually more friends of your friends. In some cases you get to know each other better and you grow closer and in some cases you feel there is none connection what so ever. Thats life.

Basically what I am trying to say is that people will appreciate you if you upvote or comment them on every article, but they will also appreciate you when you don't do this on every article but just give one great heartwarming comment once in a while. At least this is what I like to believe...

Hope this contributes a little bit :)

Have a nice day and remember.. GoCocoNuts ;)

Is there enough value in voting to be worth spending much time thinking about it?

Like, for me, my votes are a few cents. I can vote 40ish times a day at full power. It seems a lot easier to just upvote good stuff as I go than to think about it literally at all other than that.

I love the quote about the attention economy not growing. So true, other platforms will suffer when Steemit and other paid platforms gain momentum.

I think it is a bit like being a good parent. You always wonder if you do enough and good enough for those your are responsible for. And as long as you worry about it you are on the right path. Might not be perfect but no parent is perfect. So as long as we wonder and we worry about the right thing I guess we are on the right track...

I start my day with curating from the "new posts". Usually I see the new guys there. If I see an article that is worthy I start commenting. Soon enough I find out that I can expand further and make a post about it:

I also reward every single comment starting from 1%. Here is my philosophy about it

<h2><a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@kyriacos/commenting-pays-like-compound-interest">Commenting Pays Like Compound Interest</a></h2>

I don't have so much voting power atm. However, when I will have I will choose my best daily post and vote using my full power! I will vote with less power to other good posts of my following ;)

Interesting post! I can't say I've thought about evenly distributing voting power but that's likely due to the fact that I have nowhere near as much influence as you. I guess as this platform grows, we're all going to have to take such things like this into account.

Awesome post!  I like it. 
I followed you please follow me 🔙 if possible.

# Have whale bots made human curation redundant on Steemit?

> The moment you decide to support one person you automatically decide to NOT support another.

##### You are assuming that all curation is done by humans, @surfermarly. It would be interesting to find out:
##### 1. How much do bots curate?
1.1  Raw votes?
1.2  Voting percentages?
1.3  Voting strength?
1.3  Net impact on rewards?
##### Anecdotally, I assume that human curation has an insignificant impact on Steemit curation. Is human curation relevant on Steemit anymore?
##### 2. Human curation depends on:
2.1 Integrity of the curator
2.1.1 Am I upvoting only the best content?
2.1.2 Am I gaming the upvote process?
2.1.3 Am I factoring in the maximum return from the upvote for myself?
2.2  The human attention span
2.2.1 How much time can I dedicate to curation?
2.2.2 What is the cash value of my time? Is curation worth it? Compared with other things that generate cash for me?

https://todaysrant2017.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/4865902d23.jpg?w=616

> Now I'd love to know how you manage to distribute your voting power 'fairly'?

##### I've not cracked the code on how to be _fair_ on Steemit. More important, I wonder if it is even possible to be just when curating?

@surfermarly,  this is a nice article. I have blogged here for three months. Curating all the contents you value is becoming impossible.  Applying your suggestions would be great. 
Thanks for this.

Very interesting post @surfermarly

nice words @surfermarly

I spend more time voting content and commenting than posting blog posts.  Just my preference and my way of adding value.  Plus, people like @furion or @timcliff add tons of value to SteemIt by consolidating great content for new people or making it easy to query data on this platform.  The user @maarnio and @steemit-health add value to the platform by having fun games for people to participate.

There's a ton of ways to add value to SteemIt outside of voting and posting.  I like what you're doing and I think we should give ourselves credit in the sense that we may add value without intending to sometimes.

You said: **To me it also means supporting brandnew entries, introduction posts, new talents - trying to give them a good feeling right from the start.**
In my opinion this is the best way to go! For me steemit is awesome because I give and get real attention! I read a lot of content and I comment way more then I write posts. I just love commenting and reading here. Steemit is my new favourite magazine which I am also a part of. For me it´s most important to see that the pearson I taked to in the comments responded in some way. sometimes it´s an upvote and other times it´s a written response. No matter how much voting power is spend I always benefit on steemit by learning so much. By helping others to feel welcome here you give them so much. Maybe even more then your upvote could do. In my opinion **you are doing everything right.**