Hey Jerry, depending on who you're following on the curation trail determines how much you're going to get back in returns. If you follow a whale you're not going to get much, the whale will get most of the returns and you get a smaller percentage. I've been studying this for weeks, following @Curie, @Wackou, and @Acidyo. This also depends on the rank you within the UpVotes and last week I was doing all curation and received about 40 SP for the returns which is OK, but not sustainable for me. However, if you do both curation and authoring it the SP you get back from your curation helps your SP recover faster. BTW, on a side note, I noticed that you wanted to do SteemJ and I noticed on http://steemtools.com/ there was already something named the same? Anyways, thought I would let you be aware of that application.
Brilliant @oceancoinz ! My head spins when I get more than two sentences in to these nutz 'n bolts posts - guess you cannot teach an old ~minnow~ new tricks ! Thank you for pointing out the flipside in concise terms
trying man, I am !
@oceancoinz thank you very much for your thoughtful feedback here! What I hope is that those going through the links on the post itself will have the opportunity to get in before the whales and that anyone following me would get a vote in before the post comes out the next day. Hopefully all of the posts would still be worth voting on or reading making for a good daily summary of some of the harder to find jewels. I appreciate your research because you are earning the same curation rewards as I am even though I have double Steem Power meaning your curation is twice as effective as mine!
can I get more upvote?
I will upvote or curate content that does one of three things: Make me go Wow!, makes me laugh, or makes me cry.
I quite often upvote content that makes a little bit of wee come out...
Needs more upvote.