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RE: Self Votes and why I avoid voting if the author has already voted
I looked into how Curation rewards work and found that there is next to no point in worrying about them especially as a minnow because they hardly give any reward at all. If I get 0.001 Steem Power out of it every now and then, I can consider myself lucky on that account.
Self-Upvotes, I wouldn't mind to just see them gone. Mostly because I still think that it feels like self-high-fiving, defeating the purpose. I also think that it would help actually interesting content to be recognized a bit better if people had that extra piece of reason to use their Upvotes for something else than themselves.
Curation Return On Investment can actually be very high if you vote early in the right post as you get a share of every other vote after yours.
Not sure where you got your curation information from. Try reading this:
https://steemit.com/curation/@miniature-tiger/an-illustrated-guide-to-curation-from-the-simple-to-the-complex-with-real-examples-from-past-posts-part-1
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That is a good post. A bit more detailed than many I have read.
Thing is with that post and the examples given is that all numbers are rather small in comparison. Most posts have, at times, 5-50 Upvotes within the first few minutes unless it is someone who is entirely new with total values of around anything between 0.50 to 100$.
When I upvote something like that, independent on how large the pool already is or how much more is coming in because of popularity or bots pushing it up, I am still one very low powered person who probably does not/did not come in first who has to compare against people who have way more steem power than I do.
Thus, I only get crumbs at best.
So for me, after experimenting with it for a while, I came to the conclusion that especially as a beginner, it may be better not to think too hard about curation rewards and just upvote relatively new posts I see from people I am following. It's a more honest and, as I think, in the long term more efficient way of handling my upvotes.