It's ridiculous that your posts get over 100 upvotes within 4 minutes. Either those upvoters have no idea how curation reward is calculated or they are upvoting bots making sure this post will be near the top of trending page where it is seen for 24 hours and making sure that most of the curation reward goes to the author.
https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/latest-curation-reward-solution
"When people vote early, the curation reward is given to the author. There is very little incentive to vote instantly after a post is made unless you really want to donate your curation reward to the author."
I always catch his posts over in facebook because I set his fbk dollarvigilante page (which has 40,000 followers) and his Anarcast page (which has 11,000 followers) notifications to always show first in my news feed since I really enjoy his perspective and content. He pays money to facebook to run targeted "Sponsored Ads" linking to his new steemit blog posts. That might be why they gets so much attention so quick. If you are not leveraging multiple social media platforms to bring attention an eyes to your steemit blog posts, then perhaps you might want to study and look a little closer at his methods outside of Steemit and apply his techniques to your work as well instead of making false accusations that he must be cheating. I am not a bot. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1338707819474978&id=129995207012918
Jeff was getting lots of attention before the promoted posts feature was even available. He got his traction from his Dollar Vigilante followers which I think he said number around 110 thousand visits per month.
Mr. Burwick's YouTube videos about Steemit drew me in and I would imagine many others. I'm still orienting myself to using the site. I understand the crypto-currency aspects, There's no end to videos and talk about that, however, I had not picked up on that finer point of curation. Thanks for posting the link to the @steemitblog, it had not yet occurred to me to look there.
Whats ridiculous is, people arent even reading what this guy is writing because they'd see its an article full of shit backed with his own opinion and sourceless. So many statement and " reports" without a single source stated.
How about I don't care about getting 0.0006 curation rewards or care to try to follow all the twists and turns of the convoluted reward logic. How about I just upvote the content I like and that's it?
Pretty sure it's bots.
I agree, and my brilliant (but minnow) post about the difficulty in posting photos to my blog only attracted 3 votes and 5 comments!
People are trying to make steem money...