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RE: An Illustrated Guide to Curation - from the simple to the complex - with real examples from past posts - Part 1
My vote is only worth about .11 now above 90% power where I keep it. I almost never vote on the "popular" posts as you think of them. My best reward comes from a post that pays out between $10 and $60 maybe. When I get on a huge post early, I can do ok, but it's much easier for me to find the littler guys to jump on. I make good rewards if I vote at 50 cents and the post goes to $2 even. It's a curation fallacy to think you have to only get on $100 posts - that's actually worse rewards unless you are one of those top 100 big guys. You get "stomped down" by their big votes.
Thanks for the response @fitinfun...my guess is that most people don't know what you do (I didn't until this post!) So if most people believe the fallacy then it is still a big problem - if not with the algorithm then with messaging.
Maybe it's as simple as showing in the UI how much of a curation reward you've earned for your vote so far on a post. Right now I think it's like you said - people just see big numbers on popular authors' posts and want to get in on it.
I think there are some programs that do that function. But I just like to see myself in the top 20 - better to be top 10 :)