If you're playing the curation game, there are certain strategies to make your vote worth the most.

> A human has a better chance of predicting the success of a random post with no votes than a computer algorithm. At best a computer algorithm could use historic performance of the poster to guess. If an algorithm is used, it will have to be a sophisticated algorithm that actually does add some value. After all, the algorithm isn’t able to vote on everything and gets exponentially weaker more it dilutes its vote.

*Source: [Curation Rewards - steem.io](https://steem.io/getinvolved/paid-to-curate/)*

The blockchain uses some logic create a reverse auction to make voting a little bit bot resistant.

#### Vote After 30 Minutes

This is not an exact science.  Sometimes it's better to vote under 30 minutes if you think a large stakeholder will vote before you.  But all things being equal, it's better to wait until 30 minutes have passed.

---

In addition to the 30 minute timing, I've added a rule to this script: be within the first 10 votes cast.

Often, these two rules are at odds.  So ideally, you would want to search for posts that have less than 10 votes but are older than 30 minutes.  Below is a script that does just that.

However, if you're not into the command line, I've also updated my [Ganymede](https://steemit.com/radiator/@inertia/ganymede-a-growing-collection-of-steem-web-tools) project and added this functionality.  To try this logic out yourself, browse to one of these ...

* [steem-ganymede.herokuapp.com/discussions](https://steem-ganymede.herokuapp.com/discussions)
* [golos-ganymede.herokuapp.com/discussions](https://golos-ganymede.herokuapp.com/discussions)

... then click the `Vote Ready` button.

---

As always, we use [Radiator](https://steemit.com/steem/@inertia/radiator-steem-ruby-api-client) with `bundler`.  You can get `bundler` with this command:

```bash
$ gem install bundler
```

I've tested it on various versions of ruby.  The oldest one I got it to work was:

`ruby 2.0.0p645 (2015-04-13 revision 50299) [x86_64-darwin14.4.0]`

First, make a project folder:

```bash
$ mkdir radiator
$ cd radiator
```

Create a file named `Gemfile` containing:

```ruby
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'radiator', github: 'inertia186/radiator'
```

Then run the command:

```bash
$ bundle install
```

Create a file named `vote_ready.rb` containing:

```ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler/setup'

Bundler.require

api = Radiator::Api.new

options = {
  limit: 100
}

options[:tag] = @ARGV if ARGV.any?

response = api.get_discussions_by_created(options)

response.result.each do |comment|
  next if comment.active_votes.size > 9
  next if (created = (Time.now - Time.parse(comment.created + ' UTC')).to_i / 60) < 30

  puts "#{created} minutes ago, votes: #{comment.active_votes.size}: http://steemit.com#{comment.url}"
end
```

Then run it:

```bash
$ ruby vote_ready.rb
```

The expected output will be something like this:

```
34 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/pizzagate/@abortionburger/victim-comes-forward-i-was-sexually-assaulted-by-james-alefantis
38 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/food/@lucki9/various-forms-of-cake-home-industri-2
45 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/sports/@vidsmash/wwe-paige-vs-summer-rae-or-wwe-main-event-15-01-2017
46 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/spanish/@steemalf/si-no-tienes-dinero-para-el-surf-siempre-podras-andorrear
48 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/china/@giova/china-wants-to-build-a-200km-long-undersea-tunnel-to-america
49 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/travel/@johnthmouse/i-would-like-to-say-hi-to-every-one-im-new-to-steemit
53 minutes ago, votes: 8: http://steemit.com/cricket/@vidsmash/cricket-funny-moments-2017
57 minutes ago, votes: 8: http://steemit.com/trump/@chahredine/trump-and-the-titanic-effect
57 minutes ago, votes: 8: http://steemit.com/test/@literature/test
58 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/art/@mariashabbir/clouds-from-the-top-of-sky-plane-view
59 minutes ago, votes: 8: http://steemit.com/offers/@pignol/2svvzz-very-serious-and-good-liver-donation
66 minutes ago, votes: 7: http://steemit.com/philosophy/@panopticalvia/pan-op-update
74 minutes ago, votes: 6: http://steemit.com/fox/@talhaansary/rd-3-fox-ama-supercross-2017-live-stream
75 minutes ago, votes: 9: http://steemit.com/steem/@cata22/alt-coin-market-caps-on-january-20
77 minutes ago, votes: 8: http://steemit.com/technology/@stabilitas/how-security-professionals-can-beat-information-overload
```

![ruby](http://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/08/24/1024px-Ruby_logo.svgdcc20.png)

See my previous Ruby How To posts in: [#radiator](https://steemit.com/created/radiator) [#ruby](https://steemit.com/created/ruby)