Steemit: The Curation Leagues - 10 STEEM in Prizes available!
Hi all
This week is complete and as usual I have some crypto to give away. Woop!
There are 2 chances to win and you can enter for next week by commenting below. Easy!
On your marks, get set, curate!
Introduction
My general views on maximizing curation rewards are:
Voting in the first minute will earn you a curation reward of almost 0.000
Voting between 1 and 29 minutes will earn an increasing % of the curation rewards split, this value peaking at 30 minutes and remaining the same from this point onwards
The goal is to get in prior to the big hitters, but not too early!
It is commonly suggested that 20-25 minutes is the 'best' time to vote (especially on known power-authors posts because they are likely to have more auto-votes coming in at these times - and you want to be ahead of these votes)
A vote of equal weight and equal Steem Power at 30 minutes will give more reward than a vote at, for example 1 hour - first come first served, but don't arrive to early :)
Voting on good dtube content and utopian-io approved contributions (prior to vote by @dtube / @utopian-io can earn some very good curation rewards
As you can see, a combination of many variables such as Steem Power, voting strength, voting weight, and time of vote, (and more) all play a part in the amount of rewards received.
My general opinion on maximizing engagement (within Steemit because I have no data for discord etc!) is:
- Spread your vote and write lots of long comments!
The data for league 1
The raw data has been collected from SteemSQL - @arcange's MS SQL Server copy of the Steem Blockchain.
The key formula used for 'quality of financial curation skill' is:
Curation Rewards DIVIDED BY Steem Power MULTIPLIED BY 1000
This will return the amount of Curation rewards gained per 1000 Steem Power held
The rules (which will cause auto-filtering of your account if not met so just enter anyway and see what happens!) to appear in this league:
Must have voted at least once on a piece of content in the past 7 days
Must not have leased or delegated Steem Power in the last 15 days
Must not have Started a Power Down (Withdrawal of Steem Power) in the last 15 days
The 2nd and 3rd points above are required to reduce distortion of the figures. And, as curation rewards for the past week are actually taken from votes made up to 14 days ago, we need a 15 day window as mentioned in these points.
Curating for maximizing returns - League 1
| User | C Rewards | Steem Power | Votes Cast | Reward per 1000 SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| credo | 0.109983 | 22.521664 | 74 | 4.883437 |
| qsounds | 2.555484 | 623.157331 | 124 | 4.100864 |
| edje | 2.418587 | 879.450109 | 161 | 2.750113 |
| curie | 277.745316 | 121358.4074 | 2562 | 2.288637 |
| cervantes | 328.575227 | 178176.5637 | 604 | 1.844099 |
| samiwhyte | 0.636906 | 360.07674 | 112 | 1.768805 |
| jaeydallah | 0.043997 | 26.808014 | 123 | 1.641185 |
| choogirl | 37.154448 | 22820.65219 | 734 | 1.628106 |
| coolguy123 | 8.36759 | 5285.672244 | 2088 | 1.58307 |
| steemtrail | 15.675456 | 11576.52507 | 287 | 1.354073 |
| osm0sis | 1.796703 | 1365.262822 | 149 | 1.316013 |
| aburmeseabroad | 1.791651 | 1362.77061 | 177 | 1.314712 |
| xervantes | 6.534027 | 5028.090579 | 77 | 1.299505 |
| rok-sivante | 123.570926 | 95367.40208 | 197 | 1.295735 |
| clumsysilverdad | 1.500775 | 1159.169446 | 578 | 1.294698 |
| deaconlee | 2.190672 | 1713.06718 | 408 | 1.278801 |
| dragonking | 0.11798 | 92.705477 | 205 | 1.272633 |
| goldendawne | 7.811926 | 6216.051185 | 432 | 1.256734 |
| greenrun | 8.395687 | 6782.472852 | 394 | 1.23785 |
| dandesign86 | 2.295651 | 2032.102632 | 349 | 1.129692 |
| dontstopmenow | 4.556329 | 4124.652406 | 60 | 1.104658 |
| beanz | 57.63724 | 53128.12288 | 176 | 1.084873 |
| instructor2121 | 6.248991 | 5827.35807 | 272 | 1.072354 |
| funcrypto | 0.006999 | 6.599136 | 6 | 1.060567 |
| steemitri | 2.710606 | 2589.97906 | 284 | 1.046574 |
| cranium | 6.862006 | 6640.53732 | 692 | 1.033351 |
| cryptoctopus | 345.363268 | 344277.8696 | 396 | 1.003153 |
| josediccus | 0.385937 | 385.014874 | 185 | 1.002395 |
| teamsteem | 401.58501 | 417472.6491 | 1625 | 0.961943 |
| maintain4real-eu | 0.125981 | 136.897929 | 115 | 0.920254 |
| costanza | 4.597359 | 5101.198841 | 152 | 0.901231 |
| kaysar07 | 0.029996 | 33.50862 | 14 | 0.895183 |
| connecteconomy | 1.106823 | 1249.895539 | 111 | 0.885532 |
| jlordc | 0.012997 | 15.044965 | 74 | 0.86387 |
| kawsar | 0.012999 | 15.065761 | 67 | 0.862794 |
| erikaflynn | 0.806866 | 949.117032 | 135 | 0.850123 |
| smasssh | 4.339243 | 5149.083255 | 235 | 0.842721 |
| mammasitta | 12.177758 | 14903.21942 | 1032 | 0.817123 |
| swelker101 | 0.851859 | 1042.696705 | 43 | 0.816977 |
| revisesociology | 0.802881 | 1004.617455 | 122 | 0.79919 |
| themarkymark | 4.25634 | 5534.72647 | 132 | 0.769024 |
| karensuestudios | 6.311898 | 8362.941549 | 130 | 0.754746 |
| kid4life | 0.865884 | 1219.120135 | 135 | 0.710253 |
| dagger212 | 1.479722 | 2096.348161 | 52 | 0.705857 |
| clio | 3.89943 | 5560.272691 | 120 | 0.701302 |
| steemfirst | 0.009999 | 14.999517 | 112 | 0.666589 |
| allesia | 0.142971 | 228.189029 | 136 | 0.626545 |
| thinknzombie | 3.643436 | 6744.135426 | 2552 | 0.540238 |
| killerkuasha | 0.059991 | 117.595449 | 322 | 0.510147 |
| ewuoso | 0.322944 | 803.4137 | 1436 | 0.401965 |
| steemibu351 | 0.010998 | 29.451193 | 138 | 0.373437 |
| retiredinsamar | 0.186979 | 583.453916 | 118 | 0.320469 |
| pariza | 0.006999 | 24.184429 | 90 | 0.289384 |
| darkerhorse | 0.017999 | 91.693746 | 51 | 0.196291 |
| joe.nobel | 0.043993 | 276.649943 | 53 | 0.15902 |
| djmalith | 0.016997 | 304.832227 | 22 | 0.05576 |
| steemit.lover2 | 0.001 | 24.414692 | 28 | 0.040948 |
The end column is what I think is a genuine indicator of how well you are financially working the curation game with the tools,including vested Steem Power, that you have at your disposal.
Chart and Analysis
Amount of SP earned per 1000 Steem Power owned
This weeks' results:
In the interest of sharing rewards I have removed @zapncrap (14.410016), @biophil (5.626285), and @miniature-tiger (4.550333) to give a chance for new winners :)
And so, this weeks top spot goes to the newly formed @credo community account which is a 'Support Project for Newbies And Investors' - Well done!
A long time member of the curation league, @qsounds takes 2nd spot - nice!
And in 3rd spot, I think a member who made last place in the beginning these weekly posts, a fine effort from @edje who has consistently improved over the past few months :)
The average curation reward/Steem Power this week is 1.46SP, down from last weeks average of 1.57.
Not many users made it to 2.0 SP/curation this week. Maybe people are looking at reaching a higher spot in league 2....
Community Curation Excellence - League 2
This new league is not based around rewards and relates to engagement.
Everyone currently on my master list has a chance here - delegation dealings or not.
I've used some metrics (which is the fancy way of saying that made up some numbers) relating to:
- Comments (number and amount of text)
- Up-votes to others
- Up-votes to unique others
- Self-votes (a minus score for this one!)
- Witness engagement
The top 20
| Name | Ashers engagement/excellence rating |
|---|---|
| @coolguy123 | 41992.6 |
| @goldendawne | 41846.6 |
| @abh12345 | 36937 |
| @carlgnash | 36783.4 |
| @tarazkp | 36421.4 |
| @deaconlee | 34001 |
| @teamsteem | 30816.4 |
| @choogirl | 30336.2 |
| @acidyo | 30052.2 |
| @mammasitta | 29710 |
| @cervantes | 29261 |
| @lpessin | 28785.8 |
| @gniksivart | 28139 |
| @clumsysilverdad | 27556.6 |
| @mariannewest | 27528.4 |
| @techslut | 27416 |
| @cranium | 26963.8 |
| @xervantes | 26923.6 |
| @fitinfun | 26819.4 |
| @josephsavage | 25937.2 |
Well done to @coolguy123 who tops the league of engagement and excellence this week!
Also very well done to abh12345 @goldendawne and @carlgnash who have finished 2nd and 3rd - happy to see you guys here! (again!)
Worth noting that the top 4 in this league have received delegated Steem Power with a view to supporting the communities around them. @fulltimegeek's master plan in action :)
Want to be a part of the league next week? Let me know below!
Calculations may vary from week to week but still with a goal to find top community engagers!
Prizes sent!
Finally
A few points:
If you have spotted any glaring errors in my post, please let me know so I can fix them
If you would like to be added or removed from my personal curation league (next weeks post) let me know
If you have any other comments, please enter them into the box below
I am part of a Steemit Business Intelligence community. We all post under the tag #blockchainbi. If you have analysis you would like to be carried out on Steemit data, please do contact me or any of the #blockchainbi and we will do our best to help you.
I am contactable on many discord channels under the same username.
Data was collected on the 13th January 2018 at 10:00 am CET
Thanks for your support!
Asher @abh12345
List of accounts entered into both leagues!
@coolguy123 @goldendawne @abh12345 @carlgnash @tarazkp @deaconlee @teamsteem @choogirl @acidyo @mammasitta @cervantes @lpessin @gniksivart @clumsysilverdad @mariannewest @techslut @cranium @xervantes @fitinfun @josephsavage @biophil @hitmeasap @theaustrianguy @minnowsupport @swelker101 @beanz @kid4life @pariza @anomadsoul @qurator @sneakyninja @greenrun @jznsamuel @blazing @samiwhyte @cryptoctopus @edje @erikaflynn @allesia @kaysar07 @limabeing @rok-sivante @ewuoso @thinknzombie @dontstopmenow @karensuestudios @themarkymark @holbein81 @cheneats @miniature-tiger @fiveboringgames @littlejoeward @steemitri @eastmael @steemit.lover2 @connecteconomy @dandesign86 @clio @buggedout @steemfirst @zapncrap @revisesociology @aburmeseabroad @qsounds @joe.nobel @maintain4real-eu @steemitfamilyph @osm0sis @jaeydallah
@rayne122 @costanza @htliao @kawsar @funcrypto @credo @rosemarynoble @darkerhorse @jlordc @josephjim @killerkuasha @josediccus @paulag @dragonking @smasssh @dagger212
@djmalit @retiredinsamar @mawit07 @steemibu351 @tumutanzi
@edje and @qsounds my personal OH YEAH! and I am so proud of you and Happy I could convince you to join steemit to post and curate like a true superstar!!!!
Great effort this week from these accounts!
And thank you for the up-vote here! :D
Your articles are so so so important about curation! Thank you!
Thank you @mammasitta 😁
It's good to be helping and giving back at the same time!
Wow, if among all these users, I'm among the top 10 in the second league, that's pretty cool.
Yes well done sir!
Wahoo! Might be nice to alphabetize them, if that's even a word. When this competition goes BOOM and that list is a thousand people long.....
ehh, just keeping you guys on your toes! :D
Not bad for someone who has a 15SP. Lol Don't really care much about curation reward at this point. If I like it and find it informative, I upvote it.
Hang on, you made it to the list with 15SP in your wallet?! Come talk to me on Discord. I am going to need to do something about that. Might make you not appear in the list next week (due to delegation), but dude. Good curators are hard to come by. I want to help. Find me on the Discords if you want a bit more SP.
Yeah! Been here for a week or so. Reading on New and Hot Content when I have time. What's the link? Would take all the help I can get lol
I hang out on a bunch of Discords... Here's the minnowbooster discord one (random choice). Find me in the list and send me a DM. https://discord.gg/D8DpKPb
Hey :)
It's not related to SP owned - the winners only have 22 SP :)
qsounds and edje (and of course my alt. zapncrap and miniature-tiger, and biophil) if you are looking for curators that will make $.
If you are looking for top engaging curators, see the 2nd list :)
Cheers!
I am just looking to help out newbies. Got 200 steem in my account to power up now and since I am living off a delegation from a kind shy whale, I pass on the love. With my 42,000SP, handing out a 100 here and there to promising curators is mostly fun. I am no whale and can't manage an army on minnows with delegations, but I want to encourage a couple of good curators. Looks like I just found one. :)
I am doing the same :)
lpessin (who has scored well in the 2nd league twice now) has been my latest delegation. I'm looking for more to give the odd 100 to, and am using this league's data as my reference.
Thanks!
https://steemd.com/tx/610b1e3a6fc3b8f7805b0e8c8561c18ebb6e96e3
As am I. Thank you for doing the math for me! <3
awww good on you! What a great feeling is it to share some SP love :D
It is. I mostly share with my local community (they need it)
, but today I made an exception. Don't tell the Israelis. :P
Nice :) You rock!
I don't even know what SP is, lol. I'm just here because reddit has gotten to be too negative. The people here aren't always real engaging, but nobody insults you here either.
And yeah, I upvote what I like. I don't want to have to calculate how many votes I can make in what amount of time to get the most pennies next week or whatever. It's too much trouble. If I make a little coin, that's cool. If I don't, that's cool too. If this place turns out to be nothing but people completely focused on getting Steem, then I'd rather go somewhere else.
SP is Steem Power - it is your (in)vested STEEM.
As a new user, don't worry about timing your vote for rewards - the best thing you can do is find the blogs and content you like, and leave kick-ass comments.
Good luck!
Well I'm about as sharp as a bowling ball for not realizing that, lol.
And thanks for the encouragement, your advice sounds like a plan my man!
Keep going @jlordc :)
Under 500 SP it's hard I admit, and remember these days well!
Hi - What sheer luck to find this as the first post in my feed when I log on...Interesting that there's no obvious correlation between SP relative to rewards... I had a quick trawl through @credo's data on steemdb - there really is nothing remarkable to report, other than there's quite a low level of engagement - only 2 pages takes you back 2 weeks. Which suggests anyone with low SP can win this and get traction, so I thought I'd give this a resteem on that basis.
It' be interesting to combine @crokkon's curation reward analysis* with the above for future reports for the winner - surely all you'd have to do is take the query used and paste in the name of the winner...
NB - the problem with this little competition is that I'm just using it justify this slight steemit addiction I'm picking up
*One of my fave data-analysis posts.
Slight. I envy you. Mine is anything but slight. :sigh:
That may have been wishful thinking. It's now 11.26 a.m. I've so far written 2 quick blog posts (for my other blog), and here I am on steemit, still in bed. Oops!
Very informative post. Well thought of.. thanks for sharing!
Yes any SP has a chance, and in fact a lower SP may have a better chance due to 'scaling' - You could find a gem with low SP and win the league!
Some great posts by @crokkon and @miniature-tiger with regards to curation - they set the standard for sure.
Thanks very much for your RS and support here @revisesociology :D
My pleasure - happy to support anything based on good data analytics which supports community engagement.
Great! Happy that I try combine both of these on a weekly basis :D
It is really a good way of motivating new users to be more active and use their resources wisely.
A new user like me who joined just 2 weeks ago can learn a lot.
@suf1an
Yeah, I signed up like 6 months ago but it didn't really click with me. I'm back and I'm pretty lost in all of the technical details. But, I'm not really all that concerned about it. I posted and commented on reddit for years without caring about the karma, I just like the conversation and all of the interesting pictures and stuff to read. Reddit has gotten too political and embittered for my taste. I literally haven't seen a single person insult another person on Steemit yet. That's way more important to me than trying to scrape together a few pennies worth of Steem here and there, lol.
Thanks for your kind words @suf1an :D
Wooohooo made it to the top 20!!! Look mom! No autovoting!
haha :D
Well done you!
Sob I want my SV back!
I'll go poke the Buildteam devs for you, see what's up. It's the best I can do! :)
Thank you!
Congratulations to all the winners.
14.4 is not a bad score for curation too!
I think @crokkon's curx bot was running around 6 last week - Could be interesting to keep an eye on that to see how it develops.
I suspect he's fiddling with that accounts SP as it was filtered this week.
curx 6.213759 - 500 SP - looks dangerous for the coming weeks!
could be a private battle between my (manual) alt and this machine. bring it!
wow, 14.4 is indeed pretty good! I was at 15.2 last week with curx, but powered up to ~500 SP a couple of days ago, so this account is out for the next week as well. No curation rewards from 500SP votes yet, so I can't say how it scales :)
Looking forward to hearing the results of the scaling operation!
Yep i'm pretty happy with that score, 7 SP a week is pretty damn good as a side income!
Almost daily when I log into steemit and start my trek reading, posting and commenting... then see your posts(s)...I am humbled even more!!
Congratulations to all!!
THIS is another honor I hold near and dear to my steemit heart and soul!
WOW, I see myself at 3rd position! Thank you for the reward share! I was pleasantly surprised!
Congratulations @edje
You have steadily improved places over the past few months and deserve a reward!
Thanks, doing my best :)
Stoked to place in the community support league again :) I love these posts Asher
It's the league to be in for sure! Cheers Carl, thanks for you support!
So, I made to the top 3 of the curation league 2 finally!!.
Thanks for the details @abh12345 and congratulations to @goldendawne and @carlgnash and league 1 winners @credo, @qsounds and @edje along with all others who are putting their effort to make this a successful one.
Inspite of her busy schedule with contests and helping other Steemians, @goldendawne still makes it to top 3, she is such an inspiration and humble #StewardsOfGondor.
Good to know some other members of #StewardsOfGondor with this.
Thank you!! Busy.. yes! Determined... YES!
Congratulations on being #1!!! (as if we ever had a doubt!)
You are most welcome @goldendawne and thanks for the congratulations.
lol, thanks for having confidence on me, though I didn't have on myself. It's good to interact and compete with you guys to get the best as an individual.
Way to go and as @abh12345 confirmed, seems like there will be changes to the criterion of curation leagues and I wish all the best to you and others to compete for the top spots in the curation league.
Have a nice day :)
You're like me! You NEVER EVER sleep!
Yes... changes are good, right?
Wishing you continued success too! And everyone who joins and is in the running- Good Luck all!
It's not like I never sleep, but I sleep less, especially after the SP delegation and these curation leagues. I got to understand some tricks of the curation, but I still languish at as low as 10th and sometimes out of top 10 in the curation league 1.
I always feel it's a courtesy to remember @fulltimegeek atleast once a day through the posts from any members of #StewardsOfGondor
Definitely those will be good for improving ourselves and explore newer things.
Thanks for the wishes, always nice to interact with you. :)
Excellent stuff @coolguy123
Now I will have to tweak my criteria a little! :D You found the secret from last week!
And yes, @goldendawne has been doing excellent work for the Stewards and the community.
Congrats :)
Thank you @abh12345, I am sure those little tweaks may make our scores lesser, but those will make us even better curators and all the credit goes to the guys like you.
Thanks for always trying to bring the best out of #StewardsOfGondor of @fulltimegeek and
others.
You really deserve a big round of applause for your effort.
Very kind of you :)
I enjoy providing numbers that can help people improve, and giving a small reward each week too.
Have a nice day :)
Yes, people will always appreciate you more for the details you provide and for those tips to improve along with those rewards, which will encourage to achieve more heights.
A very bright day to you too. :)