Taking my @tipU curator role to the next level!

Most of us know that #newsteem has basically put an end to bid bots and that they are turning to manual curation. From what I've seen so far, it's good to see the whales curating content that otherwise wouldn't have been—unless promoted. So if you're creating good and interesting content, then eventually you'll be rewarded with a curation. Don't give up!

@tipu is one of the bid bots that has 'gamified' the curation game. The mastermind @cardboard called out for curators not so long ago, each having the ability to curate using @tipu's VP at 1%. The better your voting efficiency, the more of @tipu's votes you can give out. Subsequently, as your efficiency drops, you will have less say over @tipu's curation. I'm not entirely sure, but you could also lose all your curation rights if you're a poor curator!

I was fortunate enough to be online at the right time to put my hand up for nomination. My efficiency was quite bad at the beginning, but now I'm at level 5 and getting the hang of it. @cardboard was also nice enough to add the available mana in @tipu's comment after voting (after my little suggestion). E.g.:

As I'm geeky, you might remember I wrote a post a while ago about Steem stats on my MacBook Pro. Guessing from the first picture in this post, I decided revamp my touchbar to suit the curation game and include voting power stats for my curation accounts and @tipu!

How did I get the mana stats, do you ask? I just had a poke around at https://tipu.online/curators and found that I could get all the curator stats with this api url: https://tipu.online/api/curators. With a little Shell script trickery, I could display it on my touchbar as follows (accepts the username as the first argument):

#! /bin/bash

output=$(curl -s "https://tipu.online/api/curators")
mana=$(echo $output | /usr/local/bin/jq ".[] | select(.curator==\"$1\") | .mana")
mana_used=$(echo $output | /usr/local/bin/jq ".[] | select(.curator==\"$1\") | .mana_used")
mana_left=`expr $mana - $mana_used`
echo "MANA [$mana_left/$mana]"

If you have a Macbook Pro and would like to try this out, get the BetterTouchTool and go nuts! Anyways, got to get back to curating for @tipu...there's some rewards to be made :)

Yours truly,
@contrabourdon

I'm co-owner of witness untersatz with organduo!

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