You have 6k steem power. That was enough to deliver a two penny upvote last week. I believe that 6K SP delivers $0.01999 right now.

I think you would do better if you dropped the delegation and used your upvote value for networking. Since you are close to being a dolphin, you might as well become a dolphin which happens at about 6150 SP.

The sad truth is that most curators don't read the posts. They vote according to a formula.

The algorithm weighs votes by the order of the votes. If I get my vote in before a whale, the system multiplies the return for the vote. When I vote after a whale, i end up losing a portion of my vote to the whale.

I try to upvote at the five minute mark. If a post already received big rewards at 5 minutes I skip it an move on to the next where I might receive a higher reward.

The @jsup upvote comes early. Since my upvotes are influenced by the algorithm, I often ignore posts by authors that bought a jsup upvote.

I think it is a stupid formula, but code is king and people must play to the algorithm.

Since you have enough SP to sweep dust, I think that the best path would be to drop the delegation and to use your upvote to sweep dust. People really appreciate dust sweepers.

If you have a two penny upvote, you can sweep any of your posts that fail to cross the two penny mark.

If one of your posts failed to cross the $0.02 mark; then you should upvote the post. This assures that your curators get their reward.

Best of all, you can upvote comments. NOTE, I have just enough vote value to upvote your reply.

If you removed your delegation, you would probably start earning more and would become part of the solution.