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I'll tell you why I care about curation rewards. More curation rewards means more SP. More SP means I can give bigger votes and / or delegate SP to newcomers I onboard.

Exactly, thank you for doing this, at least you don't upvote yourself up, i hate to see people just upvoting themselves, i prefer to give other people upvotes, earn SP and upvote some more less known people that give out good content. still i though we should only vote around 11 times per day, because of the voting power...

I upvote my own posts and rarely upvote comments. Mostly for visibility. My votes are usually in fractions. Between 5% and 100% of my vote. Comments usually get 1% just for fun. If I only threw around 100s my VP would die very very quickly. So I prefer to spread the love with 100+ little votes than 10 big ones.

Exactly as i do, upvote my own post (0.01$ but it still counts) but never my comment, even though i dont know how to change the percentage of VP... i still don't have much SP so it probably won't make any difference
Thanks for the info, you got a new follower :D

You'll get to adjust voting percentage on steemit when you hit 500 SP. Have patience. Followed back. Also, I checked and my self upvoting percentage is: ~ 5.22 % self votes, last 7 days.

Yes, but I find the effort to reward ratio is not that great for me. If I had 10x the SP it might be. For now I concentrate on rewarding others. I do okay from my posts and comments anyway.

I am lucky to be the recipient of a generous delegation aimed at helping the community and rewarding quality authors. If curation rewards were the ONLY reason for me use Steemvoter I probably wouldn't. That "smartfeed" cheat though, and the ability to give love and rewards to authors I know deserve it? That's why I support automated voting. It is in no way a replacement for manual curation, but it helps save time for people like me who vote a lot.

I've delegated a lot to others so they can help the community. I'm prepared to do more of that.

Out of my "natural" 4,000 SP, 3,000 SP is delegated out to other community members. I check my list every Saturday and try to add another newbie or two. The joy of seeing them discover the vote percentage gauge when hitting 500 SP - PRICELESS! <3

Hi Ilana.. Today is my first day on steemit, and I have no idea how to go about it. Can I ask for your guidance?

Not asking for upvotes, just some guidance on how to go about it. I am ready to put in the efforts to make the community bigger and stronger!

Will appreciate any feedback, and tips!

I would start with the guides and tutorials on @sykochika 's profile. She's put in the time and effort to organize all the information in a document linking to all the guides. If you have any specific questions - look me up on the discords and I'll try to help.

Thank you for the pointer Ilana! I'll definitely look up the guides.

Although my upvote wouldn't make any difference to you, I am still being grateful for your help and upvoting it!

Every 0.001 SP counts :p If it's not worth the effort, I would at least have setup a curation bot to run when your voting power is full

You choose between the two or perform two function either you be the author or you be a curator, this made me love steemit and fast rising in terms of exchange against uSD.

I am both author and curator. I love being both.

The same here!
Experience has shown that a mix of manual and auto-vote is the best solution for me.

May your business grow.