Curation Rewards

Curation rewards are gained by upvoting or commenting on other steemit users post.

This curation reward is based on how much Steem Power you have in your account and on the post you upvote. The more earning a post on which you give your upvote the more curation rewards you get. The more upvote value that comes in after you upvote the better.

The Power of Steem

Steem recognizes the value of all users contributions with both posts and votes is greater than the sum of the just the parts.

A single vote will provide little curation value, but lots of votes provides very effective curation. Steemit finds content without curation is of limited value.

By rewarding curation the Steem network is able to use automated algorithms to extract the more valuable information from a massive amount of content.

The Contest

• Easy to Enter just Upvote and Done. Resteem Helps but Not Required

The contest is easy you just upvote this post until post payout I will use many Upvote Bots to increase the payout. This means if you upvote this post within the first 6 days you will get a high Curation Reward.

The Better Contest

But wait there's more I will now be delaying my post promotion with Upvote Bots on most posts for several days to allow for more curation rewards to those that set up to automatically upvote my posts.

So setting up your account to automatically upvote my post will help you earn Steem Power even when you are not online.

How To Automatic Upvote

1. Simply go to
   (https://www.steemvoter.com)
   

2. Click on Sign Up and create a new account, it will look like this.
   

3. Click on ADD ACCOUNT option and enter your steemit user name without the "@".
   
   Need help finding your Private Posting Key?
   Go to your steemit account and click Wallet, click on Permission and click Show Private Key copy your "private posting key",
   
   Paste it back in the steemvoter site and click on ADD NEW ACCOUNT

4. You successfully added your steemit account, now click on RULES
   

5. Enter isteemithard into the "Author of Posts to vote on" Vote Delay in Minutes 5-30
   

Click Save Rule and Your Done

After You Upvote Come The Upvote Bots - You Can Use Them Too

Don't forget the reason your setting up to auto upvote me is not only because I continue to post quality content, and engage in steemit #contest and #challenge posts. Your also upvoting me because the Upvote Bots will come after.

Upvote Bots

Regardless of your opinion on the positive or negative aspects of the Steemit Upvote Bid Bots they are swimming around the Steemit Sea and seem to be here to stay. Why not take advantage.

But Wait! Stop! Hold Your Horses! Don't Blindly Bid!!!

For those that may not understand how a Steemit Upvote Bid Bot works I will explain simply.

The Bid Bot account has a certain amount of VP or Voting Power (this decreases each vote and represents the amount of Vesting Steem or amount an Upvote from this account at 100% is worth. The Bid Bot will Vote Either when the % is over a certain amount like maybe over 80% VP, or every certain amount of time maybe every 2.4 hours.

Users Bid for a percentage of this Upvote by sending in SBD known as STEEM DOLLARS. This is done on the drop down arrow next to the STEEM DOLLARS amount in your Wallet. Then in the box beside To enter the bot account or @ isteemithard to be nice to me. In the Amount enter the SBD amount you would like to Bid.... But Wait!

Make sure your Bid is Profitable!

Before you skip to the next step and enter the URL of the post you want Upvoted in the Memo, Make sure your Bid is Profitable!

Making a Profitable Bid

This is most important to everyone else more than just you because your bid effects everyone else with an open bid.

If your Bid or Sent SBD amount is more than the Max Profitable Bid remaining you will now receive an Upvote less than the amount you sent.

But that't Not the Worst Part

What makes this even worse is that now everyone else with a Bid or Sent SBD will also receive an Upvote less then the sent amount meaning a negative ROI or Return On Investment. This can not only upset other users but create some what I call Steem Shark frenzies resulting in those users attacking you with Flags on the post you overbid with.

At first you may think hey whats going on why are steemians all flagging or downvoting my post and the reason is well you in essence robbed them of SBD by taking away from them what would have been profitable bids.

At this point even the Bid Bot account owner can become upset because the effected users may not all understand this concept and think the Bot is not profitable or working correctly and refrain from using it again.

Solution

The solution is simple make sure you do not Bid more or over the Max Profitable Bid. This mathematical confusing task has been made simple by the very very gracious and very intelligent steemit user @yabapmatt who provides us all with https://s3.amazonaws.com/yabapmatt/bottracker/bottracker.html

Steem Upvote Bot Tracker
@yabapmatt doesn't charge anything or make any money off of this tool so show your support by voting for him for Steem witness! Go to https://steemit.com/~witnesses and enter "yabapmatt" in the vote box at the bottom of the page.

I will not explain how to use the Steem Bot Tracker in this post because all that information is easily explained on the site. But I will add this segment of that information because I find it valuable for those that may miss it

"typically try to bid around 50% of the Max Profitable Bid amount right before the Next Vote time."

I hope this helps not only those reading this but the users whos bids are impacted by these readers as well.

Most of this info on the Upvote Bots was sourced from a similar article I posted https://steemit.com/steemit/@isteemithard/steemit-upvote-bots
As you can see in the comments by @cheetah, remember even if you are quoting yourself source your prior work.

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