If you have been paying attention you will know that there are FOUR delegation dragons diligently trying to get value from their staked HP by delegation. Their first week delegation results were posted yesterday with varying results.
There are also two other dragons :
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but today I'm going to introduce FOUR more dragons to bring the total to TEN. After these dragons are introduced then it will be time to bring in images, stats, and battles. However, all that takes time.
Now delegations are easy. You just stake your HP and delegate it to a curator. Wait a week and the coin flows in.
However, the curators don't return 100% of their rewards. They only return a fraction which is typically 80%.
The question I have is this:
Now I certainly don't have the time to read a bunch of posts and find 40 articles a day for 4 dragons to vote on 10 times. However, I am curious if there is a better return to be had with curation?
In that regard I'm going to use :
It's a useful part of the HIVE infrastructure which will allow someone to follow a curation trail and support other posts without actually reading a whole bunch of articles.
Now hive.vote has lots of different uses like having it automatically claim your rewards but for my purposes I'll have it automatically upvote a curation trail for three of the dragons and create a fanbase to upvote for the fourth dragon.
Another useful tool is the downvote trail. If you really don't like someone's content and you have a high reputation you can set hive.vote to automatically downvote everything they write. I typically wouldn't recommend that but there are times when spammers need to be silenced and this is the site that can do it.
A curation trail is just a list of people that a curator typically upvotes. For my dragons I chose 3 different communities to upvote. 
A fanbase is very similar except I choose the users I want to support. I've added everyone who holds GLD token to the fanbase and will upvote them regularly. However, I will be making sure that the content is good and bad content will get you removed from the curation list. I also have the option of how many posts I will upvote every week. For some who I know work hard to make good content regularly like 
Another thing hive.vote lets you do it choose when to stop upvoting. I've set it to 76% voting mana so I there will be times you post good stuff and I just won't have enough mana to upvote it. It happens :)
Now it will be a challenge to figure out how to power up the dragons as delegator dragons get returns which I can turn into GLD tokens. Curator dragons will get staked HP which I can't turn into GLD tokens. Also delegator dragons won't be getting any return on the GLD tokens they have in their possession while curator dragons will be getting increased rewards because of increased HP as time goes by.
To make things even I'll probably have to figure out a dynamic whereby GLD tokens get a return from being held but the moment? I'm just curious to see which dragons are the most profitable.
Keep watching and find out who the winners are :)
