OK the way it works is like this: if you upvote within the first 30 minutes, you are giving most of your curation award to the author. If you upvote after 30 minutes, you keep the curation award.
When you are upvoting a post that already has a lot of rewards, you frequently see a rise in the $$, but this is because your vote is added to a lot of other people's votes, and sometimes you "tip" the rshares enough to increase the total reward. However, it is unlikely that you will get a curation award for your efforts, especially if you have voted after a whale.
If that all sounds very confusing, you might like to look at the detail of your posts in steemd.
Here is the steemd version of this article:
Click "advanced mode" and then scroll down and click "vote details".
You should see a list of everyone who has voted. The total of the rshares determines the total reward for the post. The total reward is split 75% to the author and 25% to the curators. The "wgt %" is the percentage each voter gets of the curation award.
Hey thanks for the info super helpful but question how do I view other articles in the steemed version?
Just take the url of your article and overwrite steemit with steemd.
Look at the example I gave above, it is the url of this article, but amended to say steemd.com at the start of the url
Thanks alot I knew it had to be something like that but didn't notice it until you pointed it out.. argh think I need to go sleep its late thanks alot for the lesson.
But it's only mid-morning here!! :)
Haha its 1 in the morning here lol time for napping, in that case have a great day and best of luck on steemit for the day.
You can click on the streems on the right hand side to see more posts
@bitcoiner & @johnerfx made some cool tools to switch between Steemit & Steemd.
@bitcoiner made a bookmarklet for Chrome & a menu pulldown for Firefox - which will also work in Chrome.
@bitcoiner's Chrome solution can be installed by going to @lantto site which lists a bunch of Steem Bookmarklets, http://steemlets.com/ (which also has a bunch of other neat bookmarklets).
@johnerfx created a Chrome Extension that was inspired by @bitcoiner original work
Thanks @alyssas - hope this helps the voters and those who have made comments