I was doing some math last night and discovered that because of the way curation works and the broken SBD peg, votes given earlier in the life of a post have substantially more value than the same vote given later, not just to the poster (which we knew) but overall. I may make a longer, mathier post about this over at my main account @tcpolymath, but for now the important thing is that it finally motivated me to set up SteemAuto so that I can help the posters I'm supporting more.
I still want to be able to manually curate on that account, so I've delegated 1500 SP to this account in order to support certain small posters' growth through consistent immediate upvoting. I'm starting it with 12 accounts I've come to like for one reason or another, and who have less than 500 native SP:
The first class is: @archisteem @cobmaximus @elsiekjay @gibber @guri-gure @joyart @lilixblack @lillywilton @paintingangels @photocircle @samidbarid and @timmolloy
Very few of those accounts post even daily, so I'm hoping to be able to expand the list a little bit once I've monitored how the voting power goes for a while. For the moment, this account is set to sell its vote to SmartMarket if it becomes in danger of sitting at 100% voting power; funds raised from that will be used to grow this account. @doctorworm will continue to self-vote, and @tcpolymath will be autovoting its posts, for the same reason. Ideally the project will become self-sufficient eventually.
The intention is that this vote will be used to grow the users' accounts, and that when they get to 500 native SP (which will happen pretty fast for some of them) they will be asked to recommend a smaller user to replace them on the list.
And don't worry, part of the reason I'm doing it this way is so I can still manually give you @tcpolymath's vote from time to time as well.