## On #steemit you get paid to curate! Yes you. :) 

Everyone, including myself, has been talking about posting a lot but I thought I would share some more on the topic of curation, how you can get involved, and earn some #money curating content you love! 

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## Voting on great content is critical to the success of the platform. 

This is an important one. You and I and everyone here has a vested interest to keep voting on great content that outsiders will see as valuable.  So while you may think it is cool to upvote some shit post to the moon it may not be in your best interest, or the best interest of the community, long term. 

While this is a beta we should see some improvements on the algo's controlling some aspects but this is also our responsibility as curators! 

``` Users with vesting STEEM have the ability to vote on posts. Voting Power is rate-limited and decays by up to 5% every time a vote is cast. Voting Power regenerates to 100% over 24 hours. Your ability to impact the payouts a post receives is based upon your current Voting Power times the total vesting STEEM and is known as STEEM Power.  ```

So users should vote on at least 20 posts they see as valuable each day to really be a good curator.  

``` Every time a post gets paid, 50% of the payout is directed toward those who contributed the most to increasing the posts payout. To maximize your potential payout from voting you should follow these simple rules:

    Only vote on posts that you believe others will also vote for.
    Vote as early as possible after the content is posted.
    Don’t vote on content that is already popular
    Acquire as much vesting STEEM Power as possible

The less STEEM Power you have the more important it is for you to focus your votes on a few good posts rather than spreading your vote thin. In particular, users with small amounts of vesting STEEM should:

    Vote on content others haven’t voted for, to maximize the percentage increase in voting
    Vote on fewer posts, the more you vote the more diluted your STEEM Power.

```

## So before you spend all your daily voting power in #introduceyourself on tits n travel pieces take away is this: 

 less steam power  =  vote on 20 important posts, ones that are new and do not have much votes yet. 

For more information and to get a deeper understanding of how the algo's work visit : 
https://steem.io/getinvolved/paid-to-curate/