I bought the 1000SP through minnowbooster. It was an experiment, I wanted to see if I could curate enough content to pay for it.

So I botted most of the voting on my account. Basically just voting on a whitelist of accounts between 7-12 minutes after posting, where their average payout was between $3 and $15. I still had enough to do a couple manual 100% votes or a lot of 1 to 2 cent votes, that was really the hardest part keeping my finger off the vote button....

You can get a 1000sp for 16-18 steem. I should make about 21-22 steem on the curation from it. (won't know till monday after they all payout)

The problem is that it all comes back as SP so in the end you don't have the steem to continue the cycle. I'm thinking about trying it again with a power-down active that will pay out close to what the delegation costs. I would like to figure out a balance to make it sustainable. I'm not so much worried about making a profit, it feels good just blasting people with an upvote, even if it is just 7 cents.