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Also... I usually get about $12 in upvotes on my original digital Artwork posts and if you adjust your Sbi6 to upvote after 30 minutes you will actually be making some decent Curation rewards on all my posts.

We did analysis early and decided the optimal time (on average) to upvote members for maximized curation. In the future we will be calculating it for each individual member and optimize curation rewards even further.

If you set all your automatic SBI upvotes to vote at 30 minutes you will share 99% of the Curation Rewards

That's correct, but it is intentional from steembasicincome to give us most of the curation.

https://steemit.com/basicincome/@steembasicincome/3szub5-sbi-member-upvotes-drive-sustainability#@steembasicincome/re-ganjafarmer-re-steembasicincome-re-ganjafarmer-re-steembasicincome-3szub5-sbi-member-upvotes-drive-sustainability-20180314t003615679z

We currently upvote every member at 19 minutes, which means we give up 37% of our potential curation reward by voting early. That means that you keep 84% of every upvote that we give you.

So right now, It is more like a nice bonus on top.

This is true. We also optimized and at the time, 19 minutes gave us the best curation return on our upvotes (while also giving more income to our members). We plan to further optimize this later (which will result in most members being upvoted even earlier, but some members being upvoted a little later) but it has not been our highest priority.

That's great.