I'm trying hard to be a good curator and have increased my curation income dramatically by the strategies I'm working on. I read a few posts on tips to curate for better money, and the difference is significant. I can get to the top ranks of good posts. But the 10 people ahead of my get the vast majority of the reward and I still get a fraction of sp.

I try not to think of this as a negative but as a goal. I want better curation results and I aim for them even though they are very small compared to author rewards.

0.031 makes me happy and I look at .003 rewards to find out what happened. I think the improvement will be dramatic over time as I improve and my sp grows.

I know some people do not curate for the reward at all, but just to reward their friends. Many end up voting at low power and never really see big payouts. Instead they get 100's of tiny payouts. Other people use bots and therefore do not see the posts they vote on at all.

For me - I comment and resteem most posts I upvote and I promote them on twitter. I also add those posts to any place that is asking for nominations of good posts. Simply doing that step gives more views and often wins the upvote prize from a bigger fish.

Without a slider, this is only a handful a day, so I can do it.

I think we have to deal with what is here - uneven as it is. If you look at the stats posts from @penguinpablo, you will see steady growth in users even though so many drop off. I hope my manual curation will help and will keep doing it for the time being :)