I must admit I've been in a bit of a slump as far as authoring rewards go and it's mostly my fault (well, my employer too). I'm still at the office 50-60 hours per week and I've not had as much time to write and I haven't done as much fun stuff to write about sooooo....yeah.

But that hasn't kept me from earning! So here's my totals for the past couple of days...I've been earning between $1-2 per day worth of Steem Power through curation and it's exceeded my author rewards most days.

But on to the main point of my post

I checked my curation distribution and there were two rewards that exceeded 0.30 steem power. So how is this possible if my vote is only worth about $0.50 at 100% power? The magic of the mysterious steemit curation algorithm...or something like that.

The larger earnings are highlighted in the image below.

Notice the payouts that I noted next to the curation rewards? These authors didn't make a huge amount off their post and their reputations are in the low 50's. They're not ballers but they are posting quality content (in my opinion) and I rewarded them for it.

So the moral of the story? Support smaller fish who are posting quality content! You'll help others who are building a reputation here and you just might get a nice fat curation reward for it too.

I'm still not sure about the mechanics of it but I'm convinced the voters who have the most voting power / provide the larger upvote value on the post get the lions share of the curation rewards. So yes, the system does sort of favor those who hold more Steem Power but one could also think of it as the system is rewarding people who invest in the platform and hold onto their Steem in that form.

I've read that timing does also have a bit to do with it and I think one needs to vote on the post before the majority of others and I haven't really figured out the optimal timing because I suspect it is relative to the timing of all the other votes. So it varies (I think).

Happy curating!