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Oh yeah I didn't really focus on that aspect. Could be on a different section altogether about the window and its effects on trying to time auto votes on authors you already know are popular. Worth mentioning though.

In short, you can certainly do it, but there are two caveats:

  1. You have to time it reliably to be before other voters and trade off with sacrificing curation the earlier you do it. It makes it so you might just find other things that can be more profitable.
  2. Downvotes can limit how much you actually get. If a popular author writes something that isn't that great, than downvotes should go there. I think we are far away from getting to that state though, given there are much, much bigger fish to fry.

It's pretty hard to get time along...even if we set into autovotes, on a particular famous authors , the nu.ber of votes fell on it is lot more and few of them even bigger fish with high upvote value....getting a slice in between them is too hard, and ultimately the whales wins the race in curation too

Yeah I wouldn't count on that game. But here's the thing, there are many curation groups forming. You can get ahead by discovering things and voting ahead and referring them. So I think that's a good option.

Getting into the game is kind of gambling...you may be win with big players or left behind

Votes on famous authors is going to be a very tough competitive game. Should you vote at 5 minutes, or 4m57s or 3m or???

Unless you are really an expert and think you can outcompete the other experts I would stay away from that game entirely.

As stated in the original post, your immediate curation rewards are the same no matter what you vote on, so go try to find less crowded/competitive places to vote.

That a lot make sense, where the number matters. It's not all easy to keep following the big user and get into competition. More user and more high value votes doesn't matter whereas you can good rewards on lower post too

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