RE: RANT Post - Auto Curation sucks - Hot Take

I still have mixed feelings on the subject, and set my auto vote to 95% mana threshold so it almost never votes on anything. Another thing that I have recently done is look at who I had set to follow and add some more people that I know manually vote. I still need to look through the list again and remove some of the other trails or reduce the % of vote on them.

Would starting over now that I have a better idea of who is who on chain be the easiest method? Well maybe, but that just means more work down the road.

The questions I still have is how much of the votes on hive now are 2nd or 3rd hand curation trails. I use Ecency to look at upvotes so the minnows like me show up, but I see a ton of very inactive accounts. To be fair I was one of those for about 2-4 years when I had some ID10T errors, and a dead PSU.

A smarter curation service would be ideal, but how do we make it work and not be abused.

There are some really neat projects working on this like PIMP and Top Comment. The way they work is someone has to call the service to upvote so it solves the was this 100% autovote?

As for the Acidyo trail, I think it is so big because he is very public on his vote and abuse stance that he should be able to be trusted to curate disserving people.

Conclusion: Mad props to you for relying on nothing but your self to manage vote power and curation/curation rewards.