Steemit reward curation does not function how you would intuitively think that they do. If it was this simple, bots would be effective. The creators of this wonderful platform are much smarter than that. The website, steem.io has an excellent page explaining how these rewards work : https://steem.io/getinvolved/paid-to-curate/
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