Steemit is a place where everybody helps everybody, and you automatically get a return for the upvotes you make, its called “curation reward”, a system that gives you steem power for upvoting.
Some advanced steemit users will know better about how it Works, and know that is not going everywhere and upvoting everything you see, since your vote power will get down, but heres my story.
I started to learn how to steemit, learned about the curation system and asked myself “Why not try this out in a smart way?”, and yes, i knew its not by upvoting a post with 20.000 Steem dollars already made, so i started to pick good posts that i knew it could start trending to upvote and give my support, but then, i noticed something was wrong, from 2 days, i had not even got 1 curation reward, and heres some examples.
This is Alla’s post, i found her by using the website, i upvoted her when she had only about 10-15 upvotes, with not even 10 dollars yet, some time after, noticed that she got to trending, with a 20.000.
She got paid just about some hours ago, and the curation rewards were distributed. So i tought “There must be something really wrong here”.
This is also another post that i supported just in its beginning. I upvoted Stephi just about 5 minutes before it starts growing up, and then, its time to Stephi get paid.
As you can see, her post was made 2 days ago, so it already got paid, the curation rewards got distributed again, and wait, i didnt get it again.
This is Layla, i saw her post also on the beginning, supported her just when i found it, she didnt have much yet, but then, she started growing.
And WOW, ok, this is my first curation reward, i know its not much, but its still something, i did know if i get some curation rewards, i wouldnt get too much, but thats already a thing. Sure?
Theres a screenshot of my steemit status. ( You can check them here https://steemd.com/@josepho) and you notice that from a LOT of posts that i upvoted, i only got a curation reward once.
COMPARITION WITH A WHALE.
This a small piece of @dan stats on steemit. (You can also check at https://steemd.com/@dan ) And just by taking a small look, you can see that a whale get a lot of curation rewards, and since his voting power is right now at 100% (You can also check on steemd) it clears me that he upvotes just the way i upvote since i have 93%+.
Right now it looks really weird to me, since theres no such a clear up post, but i found this kind of “error” with curation rewards in a lot of profiles that i prefer to not mention. I dont know if i dont know steemit as well as i thought i did, but right now it seems weird to me. Can someone clear it up?