Great post, I totally agree. At first I thought I should just vote on popular posts (or those that I thought would become popular). But the curation reward for minnows is so low that it's not worth it trying that.
Now I only upvote posts that I think are good, and mostly by minnows. It's more important to support fellow minnows than whales, and you make friends doing it too!
That was exactly my line of thinking when I began here two months ago :)
I did not know that about the curation reward! Where can I find information on that?
This would be a good start: https://steem.io/getinvolved/paid-to-curate/
Thank you for this link!