Upvote can reward content authors based on the number of votes and the author's reputation.

The upvote weight depends upon amount of steem power staked by curator .

Meanwhile, curation refers To the act of identifying, finding ,and pushing high quality content on Steem

I would like to mention that making valuable comments and resteeeming the poste are also part of curation and even one more important thing of curation is downvoting of spam or abusive content to maintain the spirit of steemmbkockhain .

autonomous bounty deduction" which allows curators To Earn a portion of the bounty generated

That's correct sir . Posts that fetch whale upvotes after we cast our upvote are likely to fetch us higher curation rewards than our upvote weight .

Good luck in this contest .