Wow- there's some very important information here that I was not aware of. Thank you.

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@tipu curate

I would have thought self curating with @tipu would have been blocked or at least frowned upon - I would like to think most curators using it are able to restrain themselves about that.

I have successfully made a few votes so far - but I have a dilemma. My heart wants to support the people getting very few votes, boosting them extra then my own vote allows. But my head says I need to keep in mind the authors that always get big rewards, and then use it early on to get the best curation return. The problem is so many people are doing this now - the same authors are just getting bigger and higher rewarded posts because everyone is chasing the same curation goal. 

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As far as I can tell it seems like the curation reward calculation is performed at end of day on votes cast by curators during that day.  This doesn't make sense to me.  Wouldn't it be better to perform the calculation for each vote when the post voted actually pays out?  You aren't currently capturing the true curation reward received by tipu for votes, and in particular you are dramatically undervaluing the contribution of all curators who are actually finding true gems when they have low reward.  Just as an example, I voted [this post](https://steempeak.com/cleanplanet/@dog-marley/cleaning-the-beach-is-a-beginning-to-clean-the-planet) with tipu when it was around $1 payout, and then a day later (after already receiving payment for that curation from tipu) the same post was featured by OCD/OCDB and is at $32 payout...  this is great for tipu, but my score for the day doesn't reflect it at all because the calculation was performed before the post went on to get the big upvote.  

Congratulations excellent work. I wish you all the best of success. @tipu

Can I become a curator? @tipu

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@cardboard Can we please have tipu reply with voting mana stats as a comment? 

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I would like to do curations with @tipu, I know that at the moment you are saturated but I also know that with these new guidelines that you are implementing there will soon be vacancies. @cardboard please place me on the waiting list.

Hello. How to calculate the projected amount of curation and author's rewards? With a linear curve, everything was easy, but now it is unclear. What formula and what api methods to use for calculation. Thank you.

Any update on tokens not being recieved for reinvestments?

I am really loving this opportunity to help undervalued posts. My request is that I can switch out the links to go to steempeak or busy instead of steemit. And I would get rid of the self-vote option altogether. 

I'm really enjoying being a part of the manual curation effort @cardboard.

To piggyback a little on some of the things @c0ff33a mentioned. There is the dilemma of trying to balance supporting of low earning content creators, with higher earners, as to maximize the curation reward and ranking.

I've taken to a balancing act of sorts, because I like to empower the small users. If they are ignored, then newsteem doesn't really fix some of the old problems that we had prior. All in all, I think the manual curation efforts are making quite a substantial difference for the better.

And about the self curation thing.. I see it as an interesting "psychological" test if you will.. Maybe a good way to figure out who's motives are true, and will help with the weening process, should you need to can some curators ;)

I hope I make the cut. 🙂

The Steem community nevers ceases to amaze me.  These curation projects on the blockchain are, in my opinion,  very valuable.  I notice your guidelines are very similar to those I encountered while hanging out with curie, the incubator and C2. I was never a Curie Curator but I enjoyed bringing suggestions to the curators for consideration.  I would like to join your organization if you have room for me.  I post content and love to promote others' music related content.  @tipu

Thank you.
This is a great and creative project!

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@cardboard Will you guys notify us once the nominations open up again as I would love to nominate my @theluvbug account which is SOLELY for curating good content.

Please help nominate @raj808

Dzięki za update. Troche się to klaruje.

@tipu @cardboard i love what ur doing and i got u huge delegator around week ago, im sure uve noticed ;)

Very well done, @cardboard! I look forward to hearing your news and... Keep up the good work!!!

The rule becomes more feasible than before.👍🏻

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Nice

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Congratulations @tipu! You have completed the following achievement on the Steem blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

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</table>

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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!


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Jep, totally on board with the cleanup. Get that junk out!

But:
Can we make a clear distinction between trash and casualposts?

>of low-effort posts, like single mobile photo with few words, automatically crated content etc.

I still think, that even there is a vast difference between those posts.
One gritty photo (which might even be plagarized) with totally broken (not even understandable) english? Okay trash.

One photo with a normal quality, which still looks good and some nice words, which are just some quick notes? A well made meme? One nicely done sarcastic comment on an article? Casual post.

Twitter became so big, because it has a maximum character count, not a minimum.

Don't get me wrong here: I'm not saying that those long posts are bad. I'm just saying that not every "short" post is bad.
(Also it will get kinda hard to find hundreds of posts per week which are hitting specific high words and "quality" criteria.)
Also those casual posts don't have to get hundreds of bucks, but a little token of appreciation once in a while, would be really nice for them.
(Who knows? Maybe that one meme is so damn well made, it will be everywhere after that.)

my 2 cents, and keep up the good work!

https://steempeak.com/steemit/@tobetada/reviewing-automatic-manual-curation