There are also combos, like a vote timing collusion effort I once was offered participation in. The author, trending regularly, has a chatroom, where minions gather to receive advance notice of when the relevant post will air.

All the minions can time their votes so as to be before the 30 minute cutoff, after which the curation rewards are greatly diminished.

I don't know either if the bulk of author rewards goes to posts or comments, all I know I for me comments are usually more financially rewarding.

However, I often make comments that people say 'you should make a post', and then feel guilty, having made too long of a comment LOL

I need to better exemplify 'brevity is the soul of wit'.