There are two ways to look at this reward curve:

• at the moment of the vote, your vote carries a certain value according to the place of the post in the reward curve. If you are among the first to vote, your vote carries less value.

• at the same time when you vote early, you will get a higher percentage of the pie from curation rewards.

I think the vote value at the moment of voting isn't the best indicator because this value can evolve. You vote with a certain amount of STU. The more STU the post or comment will get, the higher it will be in the reward curve.

So, in spite of everything, I believe that it is important to vote quality posts early and encourage other people to read these posts.

Project hope: a perfect solution for post HF21

All the people that work around project hope write constantly interesting posts and also most of the people have substantial Steem Power.

If as a community we vote for each other and spread our posts, we all win. The new settings of HF21 encourage communities to merge and support each other.

I believe that the project hope is a great tool for all of us:

• for authors to have their posts seen and upvoted
• for curators to find quality content that will probably have higher payout levels and higher curation rewards
• for investors to use their Steem Power with high ROI of curation rewards

P.S: Please correct me if I got things wrong ;-)