I wonder if part of the reason the big posts get so many minnows to vote for them is so that they can get curation rewards. Minnows see that those posts are doing well and hope to get something by voting for it. To be honest I have done it, in part to learn how everything works.
I will keep at it. Thanks for your support and ideas. I will keep working at it.
Yes, absolutely. I'm quite confident that is the reason. I did it as well. However, if you vote too early, your curation award goes to the author. If you vote too late, you get very little or nothing. I find that most of the time these articles attracting a lot of votes already have a lot of votes on it before the half-hour penalty time is up, so trying to find that sweet spot where your vote actually earns anything significant is a rather daunting task. Too much trouble for me. When I look at my curation rewards they are mostly around the 1-3 thousandths of a cent! I prefer to look at the other side of it and know that when I vote on someone, I am gifting them 2 cents! As the value of Steem rises and my SP goes up, that gift will also go up.