PS You'll actually make more creating content either via posts or comments that way you'll be able to get the upvotes.

Curation via giving upvotes to get $ is an advanced form of gambling ... which is beyond my ability even create a short explain for. ... search for "curating curve" or "upvoting curve" ...

The best use of upvoting is trying to get attention for the author of the post by and maybe give some of your shares over to the author. At my level that's about 0.005 per upvote ... but it all adds up! AND besides it's may way of saying "I Like"