everyone is cheting here. for example @opaulo is upvoting my post.. cause he knows that i invest money in them and if you are early upvters you get nice reward.. if the post is very popular at the end.. everything here is a scam.. believe me.. @r1s2g3
Might be ,I am still unaware of intricacies of Steem (Even my account is old but I started taking interest in steem for last 15-20 days).
My personal opinion is that steem will be much better place if paid voting is banned and every user use his votes.
That I do not understand, can he get more rewards, what he voted for you. There whole author- curator relationship looks complex to me. I only suggest you to use steem as secondary platform, publish the article first anywhere and give link here to increase the traffic.
Really great advice . About rewards https://steemit.com/steem-help/@peterz/steem-rewards-cheat-sheet check this.. early votes get bigger rewards