RE: Sheep in distress! Halp meh plz!
Welcome to the trenches private. This here is a battle for the hearts and minds of all the steemians out there waiting to be recognized for their hard work! Over on the other side of the battle lines are the apathetic, or worse self absorbed power holders who don't want to see the wealth spread far and wide! Your mission is to sprinkle SP goodness wherever you go and bring the joy of curation to the platform!
Seriously though, don't expect too much of yourself. Treat Steem the way you have previously, just be more aware of how much you can affect a post.
For me, Gina is a godsend. I have her set to ping me whenever posts are tagged with one of several tags I track. The writers block is a great one! I love when they have a story contest going on for me to get some good reading in, and curate some amazing authors. I also follow the drawitbetter contest and a couple of other art related tags that I enjoy.
Now part of that comes from my responsibilities to Curie. I am looking for posts I can submit for an even bigger upvote from the guild. But I would use Gina even if I wasn't a curator.
For me, my other big project is building @thefreshfive. Thanks to Geek's delegation, I was able to afford to create and delegate to a secondary account which strives to help with new user retention by welcoming some new gems to the platform and inviting them to come to the Fresh Five posts and mingle and meet new people. I've even been able to "hire" another curator for that endeavor so I am not killing myself trying to get it all done.
At the end of the day, as far as I am aware, the only rule is that you don't let your account sit at 100% voting power. Go out and use the power at your disposal to reward good content. Do that, even if it is just in your own feed, and you are spreading the wealth adequately.
Enjoy!
I've added the Fresh Five to my SOG folder for closer examination. I really appreciate you taking time on this and will definitely look closely at it. Once I'm feeling more solid if there's ever anything I can do to be helpful just tell me where to stand and what to hold!