I am one of the top tipu curators now. You can see me ranked here:
https://tipu.online/curators
In a day or so, I will get a higher rank, as one of my "mistakes" in tipu curation drops off the page. tipu is now working with a rolling 10 day window, so if I tipu'd you 11+ days ago, I can tipu you again today if you have a good post I see at the right time.
You can see who I have tipu'd in the last ten days here:
https://tipu.online/curator?fitinfun
I have 4 tipu votes a day and use all of them most days. Here is my experience, methods, and how you can catch my attention so I might curate your post.
How did I get to be top-ranked?
The most important metric at tipu is "efficiency." The majority of the posts I curate MUST go on to get better votes after I tipu them. If they do not get better votes later, my efficiency drops and then I get less votes to give.
I have my own methods for helping to make more votes come in as you will see.
Some people lie in wait for the "bigs" to post and tipu them at 4 minutes. Right now another good place to do that is in Inktober, since most of those posts get fat ocdb votes later. I'm too old and busy for that. I am working in a more measured way.
Also, the bigs already get great votes and do not need my 80 cent tipu. Sending this vote to a new and smaller blogger is much more rewarding to that person than to someone who already gets $20+ on their every post.
I have goals in who I curate:
- help little people get better rewards
- do not repeat bloggers more than once every 10 days
- help my own blogs get better curation rewards
- get more followers to my blogs
My Methods:
My 4 votes come in and refresh each 24 hours. Then I have 24 hours to use them. I am usually done for the day in much less time than that.
When I notice my votes are in for the day, I open screens for "created" in a few tags:
- tasteem
- freewrite
- steemitmamas
- steemiteductaion
- marlians
- neoxian
- ccc
For tasteem, I am looking at newly published posts. For all the rest, I page down to 2 hours old or so and start looking.
General procedures:
- find a likely post
- check and read the post with no media
- check the post with media to see what it looks like
- check the blog feed to see the last couple weeks of posting from this blogger
- follow the blogger with my three blogs
- double check to make sure I still have a tipu vote
- vote on the post with my three blogs
- make a meaningful comment from fitinfun and add the tipu command
- watch for the tipu vote to come in (seconds later)
- promote the post in other places so it gets votes after me. (usually)
- monitor my tipu detail to make sure I am doing well in efficiency.
- investigate posts that fail so I can improve.
What is a likely post?
- less than $1 reward already
- blogger who does not get big rewards
- 200+ words of text
- a good intro
- more than one photo
- few mistakes in English with exceptions for ESL people <<< very subjective
- a post I will feel good about promoting elsewhere
Note: I know a good intro when I read it. A bad intro is:
Hello all my steemian friends. I've missed you! I have not posted in a while and then I thought maybe I should post but then I got busy and so now here is my post.
These first lines appear where I promote and so I will not be curating your post. Put this fluff at the end of your post if you feel the need.
Tasteem Posts
Tasteem is different the the other tags, so first I will mention this one. I feel that tasteem is my "cheat" tipu voting since I can depend on tasteem to give me the extra vote I need without any action from me. I could easily tipu curate only tasteem and do just fine in efficiency.
I usually tipu at least one tasteem post a day and sometimes two if I am having trouble finding good posts in the other tags. I do not have all day for this work, and sometimes I need to just get it over with.
I refresh my tasteem "created" screen until I see a new post of less than 10 minutes old. I know that tasteem will vote their big vote at 16 minutes, so this gives me time to work.
I'm looking for excellent tasteem reviews. I post my own reviews with fitinfunfood and so I know what to look for. You only need 3 photos and 10 lines of text for your tasteem review, but that will not get you my tipu vote.
I want to see:
- 6-15 photos
- a good story about eating there
- good photos of the scene
- the menu or talk of prices
- good food photos
If I see all that, I will do my tipu procedures. I will also promote the post sometimes but not always.
I can tweet the review from fitinfunfood and get tasteem points for that blog if I want to.
I can promote it like any other post as I will describe below.
Posts I tipu for tags other than tasteem
Normally I am looking for "likely posts" as described above. There are some quirks for each type of post though. For example, freewrites do not need a lot of media support and can even have a sourced image.
I scroll down each feed looking between 2-20 hours old for a first pass. Some days are easy; some days have nothing I can tipu. It just depends.
How I promote posts I tipu'd
My first resource is 
Note: Anyone can get approved to drop links in
I only put one tasteem a day or less in
My second resource is twitter. I tweet the good ones if I feel like it.
My tipu mistakes
- I voted for a person in a downvote gang
One of the best posts I have ever read in my life, that brought me close to tears when I read it, was downvoted by one of the bigs involved in the ongoing nastiness.
This big had recently been downvoted by this little minnow since she is following a trail of down-voters. So of course, she did not even know she had down-voted this big guy in the first place.
She does not care and proudly thinks her gang has got her back, but they do not. They did upvote her after the down-vote, but only to 50% of what she would have gotten.
- I voted for a plagiarist
This person is not on any blacklists, but definitely is not posting original work. I was fooled by the presentation and found out when
I asked and got details of what was wrong, looked agian and realized I had indeed been fooled. So this is why I am taking the time to go through a couple of weeks of posts now unless I already know the blogger.
- I tupu'd too late and all the good votes came in before me.
This is why I am not playing around at 5 minutes. It is too risky and I want to help. If my efficiency goes down, we all lose.
In Conclusion
None of the posts I have curated has ever gone over $20 so the NewSTEEM reward curve thingy is against me. But I know I am giving encouragement, and growing my following so it is all good.
There are 191 tipu curators now. I watch people get kicked out and I know 
Tipu is not accepting new curators now.
You are tagged because you are another top curator. I would love to have any input from you about your experience with the program.
You are tagged becuase you are an admin somewhere I look for posts, you are curator elsewhere, or we have talked about this issue so I am showing you the update:
What I do on STEEM
- freewrite daily with
- Minnow Tips
- Photography
- Travel
- Food and ccc contest posts
- Tasteem restaurant reviews
@pifc contest entries
- dApp, tokens/tribes and gaming review posts
- dpoll- STEEM and lifestyle questions
My most recent summary of Minnow Tips is here:
These tips will help you if you are new and struggling on STEEM. Tag me in any comment, nd I will help you if you ask me to.
I won the Conference Fee to STEEMFest in Bangkok!
Just the other day, I got this great news. I was going to be in Bangkok anyway, but now I will really be at STEEMFest in a few days.
I am still fundraising to get there and I need help. I think I need about $85 more in USD and will have that number soon to do a countdown with it, lol.
If you would like to help me get to STEEMFest, you can!
You can upvote any of the posts on my three STEEM blogs, especially those older and close to payout:
You can send any amount of STEEM/SBD to my
If you would like to send cash by paypal, please contact me in Discord. Sending that money to a member of TeamMalaysia instead of to me directly ends up being quicker and with much less fees.
- If you would like to send cash to my Thailand Bank account where I can access it with no fees while there, please contact me in Discord to get that information.
My Discord Contact Info:
fitinfun#2249