Steemit: The Curation Leagues - 15 SBD in Prizes!
Hi all!
This weeks' curation league post is brought to you from the Island of Mauritius!
A minimum of 15 SBD in prizes are available by stating your interest below. You will be entered into both leagues, which are probably best called tables, as they are reset each week.
On your marks, get set, curate!
Introduction
My general views on maximizing curation rewards are:
Voting in the first minute will earn you a curation reward of almost 0.000
Voting between 1 and 29 minutes will earn an increasing % of the curation rewards split, this value peaking at 30 minutes and remaining the same from this point onwards
The goal is to get in prior to the big hitters, but not too early!
It is commonly suggested that 20-25 minutes is the 'best' time to vote (especially on known 'power author' posts because they are likely to have more auto-votes coming in at these times - and you want to be ahead of these votes)
A vote of equal weight and equal Steem Power at 30 minutes will give more reward than a vote at, for example 1 hour - first come first served, but don't arrive to early :)
Voting on good dtube content and utopian-io approved contributions (prior to the vote by @dtube / @utopian-io can earn some very good curation rewards
As you can see, a combination of many variables such as Steem Power, voting strength, voting weight, and time of vote, (and more) all play a part in the amount of rewards received.
My general opinion on maximizing engagement is:
- Spread your vote and write lots of engaging comments!
The data for league 1
The raw data has been collected from SteemSQL - @arcange's MS SQL Server copy of the Steem Blockchain.
SteemSQL is now a monthly subscription service and so your support in this post is greatly appreciated!
The key formula used for 'quality of financial curation skill' is:
Curation Rewards DIVIDED BY Steem Power MULTIPLIED BY 1000
This will return the amount of Curation rewards gained per 1000 Steem Power held
The rules (which will cause auto-filtering of your account if not met so just enter anyway and see what happens!) to appear in this league:
Must have voted at least once on a piece of content in the past 7 days
Must not have leased or delegated Steem Power in the last 14 days
Must not have Started a Power Down (Withdrawal of Steem Power) in the last 15 days
The 2nd and 3rd points above are required to reduce distortion of the figures. And, as curation rewards for the past week are actually taken from votes made up to 14 days ago, we need a 15 day window as mentioned in these points.
Don't let this put you off entering though - you will be automatically excluded/appear depending on the criteria above.
Curating for maximizing returns - League 1
| User | C Rewards | Steem Power | Votes Cast | Reward per 1000 SP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| credo | 0.134026 | 32.535912 | 100 | 4.119339 |
| qsounds | 2.232346 | 631.994732 | 108 | 3.532223 |
| samiwhyte | 0.93121 | 384.177646 | 137 | 2.423905 |
| curie | 254.098542 | 117052.5119 | 2801 | 2.170808 |
| edje | 1.879299 | 935.814646 | 151 | 2.008196 |
| r-bot | 2.0103 | 1108.619758 | 125 | 1.813336 |
| fiveboringgames | 28.857236 | 15967.6479 | 289 | 1.807231 |
| mgood | 0.372061 | 205.894174 | 152 | 1.807048 |
| maverickinvictus | 1.788262 | 1038.82122 | 434 | 1.721434 |
| choogirl | 41.53891 | 25158.62552 | 1517 | 1.65108 |
| greenrun | 11.351919 | 6889.704271 | 274 | 1.647664 |
| jaeydallah | 0.047011 | 32.735144 | 315 | 1.436115 |
| steemitri | 3.765675 | 2666.781203 | 382 | 1.412067 |
| revisesociology | 1.626302 | 1205.146711 | 547 | 1.349464 |
| limabeing | 1.391271 | 1037.31362 | 85 | 1.341225 |
| aburmeseabroad | 2.1644 | 1629.872533 | 177 | 1.327957 |
| osm0sis | 1.921388 | 1505.43357 | 215 | 1.276302 |
| dandesign86 | 2.797471 | 2226.26417 | 500 | 1.256576 |
| htliao | 25.190681 | 20262.58917 | 448 | 1.243211 |
| tpkidkai | 0.402053 | 330.278663 | 136 | 1.217315 |
| sneakyninja | 0.94118 | 835.497004 | 119 | 1.126492 |
| instructor2121 | 6.581835 | 5889.183278 | 123 | 1.117614 |
| beanz | 56.462586 | 52566.87068 | 121 | 1.07411 |
| halcyondaze | 0.564097 | 542.541461 | 164 | 1.039732 |
| maintain4real-eu | 0.144026 | 145.678769 | 48 | 0.988657 |
| salmanbukhari54 | 0.232023 | 235.815905 | 60 | 0.983918 |
| erikaflynn | 0.952147 | 983.654582 | 186 | 0.967969 |
| rok-sivante | 90.426206 | 93498.62104 | 502 | 0.967139 |
| josediccus | 0.418076 | 440.202749 | 165 | 0.949735 |
| cryptoctopus | 317.537697 | 340029.4622 | 367 | 0.933853 |
| connecteconomy | 1.183201 | 1294.716735 | 165 | 0.913868 |
| karensuestudios | 7.850251 | 8691.715485 | 122 | 0.903188 |
| costanza | 4.615761 | 5137.587578 | 222 | 0.89843 |
| smasssh | 4.94489 | 5546.599084 | 197 | 0.891517 |
| jlordc | 0.10202 | 115.134166 | 114 | 0.886094 |
| steemtrail | 10.158502 | 11652.3017 | 121 | 0.871802 |
| dontstopmenow | 3.880657 | 4746.455454 | 91 | 0.817591 |
| paulag | 0.149031 | 188.488602 | 75 | 0.790665 |
| mammasitta | 11.611291 | 15182.67857 | 682 | 0.764772 |
| mariannewest | 2.121411 | 2869.469874 | 419 | 0.739304 |
| majes.tytyty | 11.234105 | 15710.93984 | 351 | 0.71505 |
| soyrosa | 0.465095 | 665.946737 | 118 | 0.698396 |
| cranium | 4.226773 | 6821.194619 | 1064 | 0.619653 |
| clio | 3.244513 | 5874.231417 | 158 | 0.55233 |
| rayne122 | 0.081016 | 151.138464 | 115 | 0.536039 |
| ikrahch | 0.012004 | 23.087555 | 84 | 0.51993 |
| jawad09 | 0.062011 | 129.800162 | 45 | 0.47774 |
| killerkuasha | 0.059013 | 125.710456 | 78 | 0.469437 |
| retiredinsamar | 0.372073 | 902.644014 | 157 | 0.412203 |
| djmalith | 0.126019 | 306.290315 | 250 | 0.411437 |
| dragonking | 0.042007 | 108.484242 | 153 | 0.387215 |
| pariza | 0.006002 | 29.94606 | 54 | 0.200416 |
| joe.nobel | 0.052009 | 277.830156 | 135 | 0.187196 |
| littlejoeward | 0.05501 | 303.437807 | 20 | 0.181289 |
| cemke | 0.005001 | 28.623303 | 231 | 0.174719 |
| thinknzombie | 1.281287 | 7372.0013 | 866 | 0.173804 |
| steemibu351 | 0.006 | 35.789449 | 87 | 0.167661 |
| josephjim | 0.002 | 15.041846 | 26 | 0.132991 |
| darkerhorse | 0.007002 | 104.524713 | 13 | 0.066985 |
| nayyabsipra | 0.001 | 15.027601 | 26 | 0.066565 |
| yura81 | 0.001 | 15.048199 | 53 | 0.066474 |
| sunnyofoz | 0.001 | 15.0696 | 102 | 0.066379 |
| steemit.lover2 | 0.001 | 35.812553 | 51 | 0.027928 |
| dagger212 | 0.022006 | 2130.869894 | 0 | 0.010327 |
| hazelgrace25 | 0.001 | 143.919043 | 9 | 0.006949 |
| User | C Rewards | Steem Power | Votes Cast | Reward per 1000 SP |
The end column is what I think is a genuine indicator of how well you are financially working the curation game with the tools,including vested Steem Power, that you have at your disposal.
Chart and Analysis
Amount of SP earned per 1000 Steem Power owned
This weeks' results:
( @curx 16.34, @zapncrap 8.28, and @biophil 5.53 removed for bots/trails sorry! )
@credo takes first spot this week, well done again guys!
@qsounds in the places again - 2nd this week!
@samiwhyte in 3rd, good job!
Well done to @edje who also performed very well this week.
- The average curation reward/Steem Power this week is 1.36, up from 1.22 last week.
Community Curation Excellence - League 2
This new league is not based around rewards and relates to engagement.
Everyone currently on my master list has a chance here - delegation dealings or not.
I've used some metrics (which is the fancy way of saying that made up some numbers) relating to:
- Comments (number and amount of text)
- Comments outside of your own blogs
- Up-votes to others
- Up-votes to unique others
- Self-votes (a minus score for this one sorry!)
- Witness engagement
The top 20
| Name | Ashers engagement/excellence rating |
|---|---|
| @gniksivart | 4235286.8 |
| @goldendawne | 3722215.8 |
| @blazing | 3168829 |
| @carlgnash | 2147476 |
| @yura81 | 2079099.6 |
| @themobilewriter | 1944009.8 |
| @lpessin | 1812169 |
| @teamsteem | 1793172.4 |
| @coolguy123 | 1784981.2 |
| @maverickinvictus | 1738091.8 |
| @biophil | 1525171.8 |
| @instructor2121 | 1504137.2 |
| @josephsavage | 1458010 |
| @pataty69 | 1081636.4 |
| @choogirl | 992790.2 |
| @beanz | 975870.8 |
| @ewuoso | 966160.6 |
| @salmanbukhari54 | 907146.8 |
| @beeyou | 881893.8 |
| @erikaflynn | 736621.4 |
Firstly, if you are placed in this league you are doing great - 1st place or 20th!
Well done to @gniksivart who tops the league of engagement and excellence this week!
Also very well done to @goldendawne and @blazing who have finished 2nd and 3rd - well done both!
Want to be a part of the league next week? Let me know below!
Calculations may vary from week to week but still with a goal to find top community engagers.
Prizes sent!
Finally
A few points:
If you have spotted any glaring errors in my post, please let me know so I can fix them
If you would like to be added or removed from my personal curation league, let me know
If you have any other comments or suggestions, please enter them into the box below
I am part of a Steemit Business Intelligence community. We all post under the tag #blockchainbi. If you have analysis you would like to be carried out on Steemit data, please do contact me or any of the #blockchainbi and we will do our best to help you.
I am contactable on many discord channels under the same username.
Data was collected on the 4th February 2018 at midday (UTC)
Thank you for your support, have a great day!
Asher @abh12345
Whoop just got up to check to see how I ranked and I did it. Haha congrats to @goldendawne and @blazing on 2nd and 3rd. I don't know if I'll be able to keep 1st as it was pretty exhausting last week. Would be neat if you could get some whales to donate to the prize pool so you could award more than the top 3. First would still get 5 steem, but maybe decrease by .5 steem all the way to 0. Wouldn't be much of a donation required from a whale, but would help to increase interaction on steemit via this contest.
NICE to wake up to is an understatement! Congratulations!
It would be wonderful to see more people get involved- no matter at what level. Always a GRAND event when a community comes together for something so positive.
Completely agreed! This is by far my favorite competition on Steemit by far and it's nice being in such good company always encouraging each other and pushing us to keep growing!
Thank you! :D
until now i was thinking @goldendawne was a real competition but it turns out it is you. I don't know if i can topple any of you guys from your position, i will surely try to do my best.
@goldendawne is the real competition. I'm exhausted and don't know if I can keep up last weeks performance week to week, but thanks for the kind words and keep it up and one day you may be at the top as well!
Congratulations @gniksivart for topping the second league. I am sure you must have spent more time commenting on the posts. It's nice to be among the top 3 though it's tough even to make the top 20.
Best wishes for the coming week, happy to know about you.
Thanks my goal is to keep pushing every week, but it was really tough last week and don't know if I can keep that up. I've already started this week off a little slow.
I guess so, it should have been a hectic one.
More people are participating in these leagues, so the competition is getting increased, that's why, as @abh12345 said, even if we are in top 20, it's something commendable .
Let's hope we stay in top 20 first and then at the top of the table.
Good luck, one day's lesser effort, shouldn't stop you from reaching the top as you can catch up within remaining 6 days.
Congratulations this weeks winner! :D
A storming performance and well deserved after many weeks of solid efforts. Cheers!
Thanks! It has been a couple of weeks in the making, hasn't it.
GREAT JOB!!! WOW!
I am so happy and proud of everyone mentioned! Incredible!!
@gniksivart!!! WHAT can I say... You are awesome!
I told you the other day you would do it!
@abh12345 THANK you again for all this. I know I say it all the time but you just astounding with all this and the stats!
Well done @goldendawne, probably the most consistent performer in League 2 and much deserved!
Everyone in the list has had a great week, the number of interactions is huge!
Thank you!!
You consistently in the top 3 as always as befit an Engagement goddess hahaha.
Looking forward to more awesome trends in how we are making Steem better 1 vote and comment at a time.
Congratulations @goldendawne, hats-off to you for topping the league week over week. This shows how important the comments are. :)
Good day.
Thank you! It's an honor and a privilege to be mentioned with all the other GREAT Curation League members.
Yes, comments and interaction are forefront with the expansion and building this platform. It's so wonderful to see how many members are taking the importance to heart; and to a whole new level.
That's true, the competition is getting more and more intense and you are at the top even with that competition.
When I started at Steemit, I never thought I will be engaging with people this much.
Thanks to all the members of SOG and members of these curation leagues, I am spending more time on comments.
We have to remember @fulltimegeek and @abh12345 for making these things possible.
You were correct and now I am exhausted. Haha. Ready to start week 2 of our friendly competition?
Hey! congratulations for coming under top 3. I was expecting you to be the number one winner again but it turns out you also have a competition here. I hope you can be on top again. Best of luck for the next round.
Hey Asher, thanks for this post. I just learned more about curation from your post than I have in my first 2 months. Cool...
And you said if we want to be added to your list, so I would like to be added to your list! :)
I hope I quality, and look forward to this challenge :)
That's what I like to hear!
Nothing like a set of bullet points to set the record straight eh :)
I've added you to the list but you may not appear in the first league next week due to my delegation. The 2nd league is very tough even to place and requires a lot of commenting and vote spread in the main.
Good luck!
resteemed it so I imagine you will get quite a few of our people to want to join! lol
and thanks for adding me and if I miss the first week its cool... it will give me a chance to practice
Looking forward to some more entrants, the more the merrier, and the fiercer the competition to do 'good' on the Blockchain. Thanks!
Congratulations to all those who have won and good luck for others.
Thanks @abh12345 for the report.
I am happy to be back in top 20 of curation league 2.
@goldendawne is immovable from top 3. Congratulations :)
Thank you! I appreciate your support!
To be in the Curation League's top 3 every week has been awesome!
You are welcome and thanks for your support too.
Yes, it's awesome. More than the rewards, it's the satisfaction of doing something great for ourselves and for the community.
Every week!? haha, well done!
Each week I switch the focus but it seems you aren't going anywhere, well done!
I know- not sure how I'm doing it or what I'm doing... but yeah, that's pretty cool!
A top 20 placing is excellent, we have over 100 entrants now. Cheers!
I think so, considering the competition level and number of members, but still can improve and get closer to @goldendawne and others :)
Thanks for all your support and the effort.
You have been outstanding and to be a place just below you swells me with pride that even a little redfish like me can do so much.
You are a great person to emulate and I am very happy to see you working so hard.
Hi @maverickinvictus, Thanks for those kind words and it really feels good to get comments from many.
I myself is a redfish without the delegation of @fulltimegeek ;).
Thank you for the encouragement and recognizing my effort. It means a lot to push further. Thank you.
Thanks @coolguy123, happy to see you among top 20 again and @goldenawne is really retaining her place, great job.
Hey, thank you @samiwhyte.
yes, great to be among top 20.
Congratulations on your progress as well and for being among top 3 of the curation league 1.
It's nice to have interactions with other members of curation league and I have read about your promotional activities to support newbies, I appreciate you for that.
Looking forward to more interactions and hopefully supporting each other to support the newbies.
We are in the process of setting up an curation trail to support newbies, I will be coming up with a blog with the details, this is part of the initiative taken by @beeyou, @davemccoy and others under the tag #newbieresteemday.
Thanks and keep competing and inspiring others, good day :)
Wow, this is a great one from you guys #newbieresteemday, I look forward to the post and see how I can come in.
Yes, it's great to be part of this. But the credit must go to @beeyou, @davemccoy and their team for initiating this.
I think the best part for us is to support the newbies with the posts that will be verified by a designated curator and join the curation trail that will be created on steemauto.com.
Even a smaller vote from many Steemians will be a big boost as a consolidated one for newcomers.
Thanks for the support and Good day @samiwhyte. :)
You are right sir,
Every upvote is a boost to a newbie, this will encourage them to remain and grow on the steem blockchain.
I just followed you now sir so i don't miss the post when you do. Looking forward to this.
Thank you, following you too now. Glad that we are interacting more and more.
:)
Yeah, the interaction is growing man, that's great.
It made me smile seeing my name in the top 20. I don't have much votes to go around as much as I want but I try to comment and give encouragement as much as I can.
This motivates me to do more!
Thank you for publishing this!
Its a pleasure when I receive great comments like this, thank you @maverickinvictus!
AWESOME JOB!!! Knew you could and would do it!
With a lot of people to look up to and try to emulate I have great motivation to do so!
I'll keep improving and getting the community more involved!
Yay! We made it on to League 2!! I knew we didn’t have a shot at all with curarion, but what a surprise it is to make it on to the engagement league. I don’t know what we did as a team but I hope we keep this momentum going!
Thank you for compiling the data. Enjoy the Island of Mauritius!
Hey, nice that you are in the league and you have started off well by being in top 20. Congratulations :)
Looking forward to more engagement as part of #newbieresteemday, that should help to move up the places in @abh12345's leagues too ;).
Thank you @coolguy12! I'm quite surprised to make in on there, but very happy! Our team may not be on there next week but I will continue to engage with the community as best I can.
The #newbieresteemday is definitely active! I may start finding it hard to catch up with all the whirlwinds, especially with all the new upcomings. It's not necessary a bad thing. :)
The support that you, Asher and GoldenDawne are giving to our community is amazing. We appreciate the mentorship, guidance, and support to our newbies.
Yes, that may be true. But, I am sure your effort for helping new joinees will be appreciated more than being part of the curation league.
Wishing you a happy week ahead and a nice Monday to start with :)
Thanks @beeyou!
Placing in the 2nd league is tough but I think the most rewarding, it shows excellent community engagement and super Steeming. Well done guys!
It definitely made my day! We may not make it on the list next week since we barely made it on, hehe, but it won’t be because of lack of trying. I am definitely adding this win to my weekly recap report.
Thanks again!
CONGRATULATIONS! So fabulous to see newer steemians on this list!
Thank you @goldendawne. It may have been a one-off event. I'm happy to join the league and see my progress (and hope to make it on there again).
Thanks for the great statistics. The curatorship fell almost two times, that's what it means to vote a lot for the comments.
Yes, voting a lot will reduce your league one placing but it will help with league 2. Only @curie (with a large trail) can compete with 1000+ votes in league 1.
Your efforts for the Stewards were not unnoticed this week though. Well done!
Thank you, that praise, this I really missed.
My pleasure, thank you for being a part of the community!
Hi Asher!
Looks very nice this contest you have created. Is a good way to learn how to curate efficiently, and maybe earning some SBD.
Also, can be a good motivation to keep activity on steemit. I have been quite ahead these last weeks.
I want to play!
Great stuff, thank you :D
I shall add you in for next week!
I am so close :)
Congratulations to the winners. Curating is a rewarding exercise as it rewards contents creators. Imagine getting paid to pay people! How awesome is that? It can only be steemit; the theater of dreams ✌️👍
Absolutely!
Paid to vote with a few more chances to win too!
Thanks @greenrun for your support and comments each week!
That is extremely awesome, we get paid to paid people, look like magic but its real
Hello my friend! I've finally went through both your and @osm0sis recent posts to get an understanding of recent events in your life.
Please do let me know where you guys are staying and what are the plans. Would be great if we can meet up and I can show you around the island.
Waiting for your reply man!
Hey!
Thanks for the reply! We are visiting for 2 weeks, and currently based in the south west of the island. I'll try to find you on discord...