It has been nearly 2 weeks since the HardFork 21 bomb dropped. With both the 50/50 split and the non-linear reward curve along with downvotes, curation will be much more important. I finally found some time today to start sorting it out for my account...
One of the major issues on Steem is that there has always been quite a large gap between doing what yields the best results trying to grow your own account and doing what is best for the platform. I personally always aim to find a fair balance between them which is not always easy, but I at try.
If anything, Steemit the past 2+ years has done a great job when it comes down to connecting to like-minded and friendly people I can relate to. For as far as actual content goes, the platform is simply horrible. There is so much pressure on making daily posts and the difference in payouts between good and bad content is slim to none which is why so many users get worn down reverting to an Auto-Pilot post2mine mode.
The previous Durgwars shitpost plague along with current Actifit shitpost plague are the best examples of people not even trying to pretend anymore. I often feel like a fool for putting time into my post always creating a custom front image and such, but then again I still enjoy the writing and most of my posts have an actual function for myself aside from the post-earnings as they help me stay sharp in my betting.
As for the content I care for, it is pretty much limited to reading what some friends are up to, getting the latest news on what's new here on Steemit and the occasional interesting post I stumble upon. Steemit simply isn't the place for quality content in its current form.
Auto-Curation
I am personally a fan of auto-curation, Putting people I like, have potential to grow, do good for the platform, are genuine, are somewhat invested, give me some support,... onto and auto-upvote list when they can be trusted to bring decent enough quality. We al have limited time and manually curating simply is not on top of my priority list and I see nothing wrong with that.
HF 21 Small Account Kill Switch
The main problem with Hardfork 21 is that it seems to have flipped some kind of Kill Switch for smaller accounts with the non-linear reward curve. Upvoting someone that will only get 0.20$-0.50$ upvotes in total makes you lose out on a lot of curation rewards for as far as I understand that it has just become impossible on Steem. The tribes seem to offer something of a 'solution' as many seem to have given up on getting steem upvotes now focussing on tribe Upvotes.
HF21 Curation Personal Changes
@sportsvoter and the fact that the price came down to more reasonable levels, I did invest quite a bit in SPORTS buying myself up to 825.000 Staked Sports over the last week and still adding to that. The idea is to give my content some more exposure while it should allow me to but a daily upvote from the @sportsvoter account which I will desperately need to get my steemit playouts closer to non-linear Levels.
It is impossible to properly curate SPORTS while also having around 10K SP as most sportstalk posts don't even come close to 0.50$ in Steem upvotes. So I was pretty much forced to make a new account 
I will also have a list with accounts to manually curate as I'm not really willing to upvote any of the standardized Actifit posts and others alike. Feel free to let me know in the comments who's worth supporting!
@sportstvoter to me is what gives SPORTS the most value and I have put everyone that has at least 250SP leased out to it on my Steemauto auto-upvote list and I have just leased 1000 SP to @sportsvoter myself.| sportsvoter Delegators | SP Delagated |
|---|---|
 @patrickulrich | 10,587 SP |
 @flipstar.sports | 10,003 SP |
 @rokyupjung | 9,118 SP |
 @rosatravels | 9,015 SP |
 @sportsbene | 5,008 SP |
 @pardeepkumar | 3,908 SP |
 @cryptoandcoffee | 3,006 SP |
 @myjourney | 2,405 SP |
 @blanchy.sports | 2,004 SP |
 @sunray | 1,502 SP |
 @kid4life.sports | 1,052 SP |
 @pouchon | 1,001 SP |
 @costanza | 1,000 SP |
 @dfacademy | 701 SP |
 @milaan | 701 SP |
 @flicktaste | 601 SP |
 @feri1 | 501 SP |
 @dr-frankenstein | 401 SP |
 @divine-sound | 371 SP |
 @wehmoen | 301SP |
 @alokkumar121 | 300 SP |
 @jongolson | 251 SP |
 @pele23 | 250SP |
Other
@littymumma 206SP |
@carlos-fernando 200SP |
@pilgrimlife 150 SP |
@russia-btc 150 SP |
@yuriitonkov 100SP |
@erikklok 100SP |
@bartheek 100SP |
@groynes 65 SP |
@sevensecrets 40SP |
@sapwood 40SP |
@fatherfaith 40SP |
@iambrave 30SP |
@xyzleo 20 SP |
@funt33 20SP |
@ritxi 10SP |
@olgablinova 5 SP |
@whatageek 1SP
Thanks to everyone that chips for the
Steemit Posting / Curation
I will continue making 1 post a day on average keeping the quality up as high as possible and making sure all post get upvoted to at least around 5$ (using daily Steemmonsters / sportsvoter / tipu / ... upvotes) which hopefully will make it more attractive for others to put me on their list.
For as far as curation goes, in the past, it was hard to upvote bigger accounts because it was virtually impossible to get upvotes back looking at it from a realistic selfish angle. The new rules heavily favor the big guys and I will be adding some of the ones I follow and appreciate (
Some that were on my list at 20%-25% who I really appreciate as they are keeping it real not bending their ways for a pos2mine routine (
Both Palnet (525 PAL Staked) and Steemleo (200 LEO Staked) upvotes are still linked to my SP upvotes. Pal will have a x1 multiplier and LEO a x4 Multiplier.
