Holy shit man, we get fucked hard!!!! I read that the reward curve actually goes UP if you get to at least 20 Steem for your blog post. As a test I paid bots to get to a bit more than 50 Steem in upvotes for my post of last week. I just checked out what my pay out is on 50+ Steem upvotes: just 11.342 STEEM plus 11.342 STEEM POWER!!!!!! The curators payout is actually MORE than what I get on a 50+ Steem post!
I think right now you can only use the big bots and maybe only the rising and maybe Booster but Booster is very very tricky. I think I've done OK. but it very tricky. Do you know how to use Steembotexplorer?
I did use Booster en the Rising. I actually was lucky and got a high % on most. But the payouts from Steemit right now are horrendous. SOMEONE is taking all the extra Steem.
It might be going to the bots or the curators. Plus the 10% cut doesn't help but I don't think that should have too much of an impact.
I think in a week or two things will somewhat normalize but I'm not for sure.
I checked and for me it is actually closer to a 50% cut! My author payout was almost 2.5 X what the curators got on a blog post I made. Now I only get about 40% of the payout!