**Curation is a very important part of the STEEM Blockchain.Curators. The list by @boddhisattva is about the most "effective" curators calculated based on following criteria:**
> Votes - Each curator distributes a certain part of the reward pool with his votes (upvote / flag).
> Authors - This part of the pool he distributes between a certain number of authors.
> VAS (vote average strength) - For general awareness, we can estimate the average vote strength in percents (%), with which the curator votes.
> Contr. (SBD) (Contribution in SBD) - The distributed part of the pool is the contribution of the curator, it is calculated in SBD. In this case, the author's reward is taken into account. The curator's reward is not taken into account.
> Share % - The percentage of the curator contribution among the contributions of all curators, we can also estimate for information purposes in %.
> Eff. - The effectiveness of the curator is estimated in conventional units and is calculated as follows.
> The total number of authors who published rewarded comments for the period under study is determined.
> Then the contribution of the curator is divided by the total number of authors, and then multiplied by the number of authors for whom the curator voted for the period.
> Thus, we see that, having distributed even a smaller number of SBD between a larger number of authors, the curator can be more effective than other curators. At the same time, having a greater voice power, but not actively voting, supporting a small number of authors, the curator takes a lower position in the rating.
**This week I was #138 and I've been in some of the previous rankings shared by the user too. How about you?**
