Not many people are curating at all - most votes come from minnows who are hoping they will receive a reciprocal vote, and not really understanding that they'll get a fraction of a cent as a result.

Here is a challenge for you - spend a day solidly curating  - and be sure to try to find stuff that was not written in your time zone. Then collate how much you have made from the effort, and how many writers you managed to get to. And then write up your results.

Keep an eye on your Steemd profile: https://steemd.com/@stellabelle

If your voting power falls below 50% you need to take a rest. It is currently showing at 96.44% which means you haven't done much voting in the last five days.

You are a dolphin, right? It should be an interesting exercise to see how effective dolphins can be. If it turns out that dolphins don't have much effect at all, then it is up to the whales to patrol the site curating to make it work. But we won't find out until someone with proper dolphin power is willing to do the experiment.