It’s like anything, you have to find a balance in order to have it be successful. Success also varies depending on the person.
I could follow groups like Curie and others to vote on the content they support but I don’t find that enjoyable. I am loving the manual curation I’m doing and my curation rewards have gone up significantly since I started. Before hive I was delegating out all of my stake just looking for a quick return. Once on here though I started to manually curate and have gone from 10 hive a month in curation rewards to this past 30 days reaching 61 hive in curation! Some would say that’s not enough but it’s rewarding getting out there and giving out lots of smaller votes to lots of people. I may only be giving .025 votes but it’s my way of saying ‘thanks for being here’ to at least get them past the dust threshold, though many don’t know what that is in the newer accounts.
Keep on trying the manual curation! It’s a lot of fun, I think.