RE: Generating Passive Income On SteemIt... Easy?? Or Not....???
You could try delegating some of your SP to @rewards-pool and get up to 4 shares. You are randomly selected for upvotes from them. That's a way of getting a return.
I would think that if you're delegating out SP to Minnows (and Red Fish), if they are just self-voting to grow, you might help them learn to be more community-minded, and you could get curation if you just upvoted the ones you liked. For a little 20SP account, even a $0.03 vote is a lot. That's just me talking about something that I don't know much about as I haven't looked into your delegates at all.
I would imagine that outside of bidbots, the easiest way to passive income would be to join groups that give votes to members in exchange for delegation. @silvergoldbotty is another one that I know some people use.
My delegatees were all chosen based on their ranking in Asher's engagement league. That was my way to make sure they were already community-minded. And all of them had less than 50Sp at the time I sent them the delegation, so the main point was actually tmaking sure they wouldn't have to deal with running out of bandwidth at some point.
I hadn't heard from @rewards-pool, nor of @silvergoldbotty. I'll put them on the list I'm making so I won't forget to check them out. Thanks!
Ahh, so it was more bandwidth-focused than rewards. I'm embarrassed to say that after being in that position less than 6 months ago, I've already forgotten what it's like to not have bandwidth. That's very nice of you to make sure they have enough to keep going. :)
I haven't actually used either of them, so I don't have a personal recommendation. I know that silvergoldbotty requires an upvote every day. For you, it would be around 33% upvote. (100,000/your active SP(3,000)) = 33%.