RE: Make 250 Minnows Insights and Observations - STEEM has a big problem

This is something I've wondered about since I joined Steemit. Outside of RC and preferring to be able to vote for those who support you, why do you choose to still rent SP at your size?

In my own case, currently at 500 SP, I usually choose to just use my liquid for things like minnow booster and delegate my SP to smartsteem for the daily payment (rather than having to manually keep track of various delegations on the minnow booster market). Is delegating SP less profitable than vote selling? Is following a curation trail more profitable than vote selling/SP delegation?

I haven't seen someone whose run the numbers on all of this, so I'm still a bit in the dark as to how they stack up to one another despite being here for a while and would be interested in your thoughts, thanks!

It's partially because I have 3 blogs, soon to be 4, and we all vote each other, so this is part of the reason it works for me financially over 500. But it is also to have a higher vote on all my blogs so I can vote the people who interact with me for a decent vote. Most people I deal with and vote for are tiny fish and if I don't do it, no one will.

I choose not to go the delegation route of letting others do my voting for the most part - maybe later. I have not run numbers, but I am associated with people far larger than me who still lease.

I plan to do it until I am at 5000 sp in case I ever get that far. I was buying votes as you mention but stopped that as not being profitable at all.

I do not find keeping track of delegations to be hard at all. I am only sad when people pull them unexpectedly and this is why I am moving to 50 sp leases instead of 100, so that a loss does not hurt as bad.

I think it is an individual choice, @ribbitingscience. i want the biggest vote and biggest sp I can get while powering down. I find this works the best. If you have only one blog and do not power down your choices will be different. I still recommend it for all under 500 sp.