I understand on the intent of limiting curration to build a whale quality posts, but why not open it up on days that it's hard to find good posts to all posts across the platform?
It's hard to dig through all the bad stuff to find some of the good, but seems like that could be an alternative as well?
We get well over 1,000 posts a day, there are always posts we can find, it's just how deep we have to dig to find them and how much shit we have to go through. Going through our bids or Steemit will likely result in the same amount of low effort spam you have to wade through. It was always intended as a value-add for @buildawhale users, a way to reward and show off quality content.
Haha I've waded through it once now and picked a post. I'm going to do more as I find time as I'd like to help currate more. It is a lot of junk.
Just a suggestion :D