Thanks for your reply ! Something I've noticed is that getting onto curation trails really smooths out post earnings. I know that posts in certain communities will get a baseline of automated upvotes, helped by the upvotes from SBI's. It makes post earnings a lot more consistent than when I joined, where some posts would do awesomely well and others would struggle to earn just a couple of cents.

I might actually start a small curation trail of my own, as a way to publicise a few people I consistently vote for but who I think make amazing content which isn't earning what it ought to. Or maybe do a weekly post highlighting them or something....