Thanks for the reply and the feedback @brumest , just no make sure I'm not complaining and actually understand the situation better now where the delegation and low steem price has a big negative influence beyond @qurators control. I actually re-wrote the @qurator part and hope it is more representative. (feel free to let me know if you think anything else should be changed!)

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@Qurator

This project that is run with good intentions aims to support members who bring quality content to steemit with daily upvotes. They have done a great job in that but could use some help and delegation from the devs to better support their members. The registration fee increased over time (they do give higher upvotes the first month which pays back part of it) and added an option for a monthly paid model since many members gave them minimum support. The old way of upvoting their posts 7 times each week while delegating some SP no longer provides any real value, this could be temporarly because they heavily rely on delegation which has taken a hit with the low steem price.

Current Upvote Tier 5 = 0.41$ (~0.31$ After Curation)
Price = Upvote qurator Daily Post for 0.038$ (after curation)+ 300SP delegation (0.32$ daily self-upvote worth)

Daily Upvote Received = 0.31$
Daily Upvote Cost =0.358$

Adding the fact you need to set your auto-vote to at least 0.06$ not to drop below the minimum and the times you miss getting an upvote when not making a daily post, the numbers are even a bit worse without counting the subscription price that was paid. (again I hope this is a temporary thing which will get fixed when the price of Steem increases)

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This is actually a comparison that can not be made because because it does not include the 300SP I have leased to @qurator for a long time. Again I'm not complaining, the only thing I say is that right now at current steem price, 0.358$ gives back around 0.31$ on a daily basis for upvoting the daily @qurator post for 0.05$ and leasing 300SP.