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<div class="pull-left"><h1>Over</h1></div> <br />the last month or so I have switched between full manual curating and using Streemian (mostly @rusteemitblog, @xeroc, and a couple of others sometimes) to vote. When I manually curate, I have been moving towards using a full vote strength and voting far less frequently.

As you can see in the above, I almost made a Steem curating this last 7 days. A week ago with the autovoting on, I was making a measly as 0.4 or so per week on curation rewards. Both times I have gone for manual curation and voting bigger and less often, I am making more on rewards.

My diagnosis is that I am a good curator and I think I am because I don't get interested in things very easily. Most of the new posts are entirely uninteresting to me, and so, it seems that out of the ones I find interesting, I often get in early on ones that go on to trend.

I am also of a logically unjustifiable opinion that voting less and voting harder is better for the distribution. I think it just clutters up the blockchain with little votes and especially people who waste their time dividing their Steem Power to run multiple bots to try and somehow get more profits. Well, for me, this strategy does not work. What works is actually reading it myself and voting on it manually, without scaling it.

I am going to continue to work this way on Steem for a while and see how this trends over time.

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