Excellent initiative and a very healthy alternative to vote selling which is content indifferent and undermines the POB process we're founded on
I would love to see more of these projects kick into gear and compete against each other
Stakeholders can choose based on returns or content type etc. or perhaps diversify risk by spreading stake over multiple curation networks
I highly encourage all currently operating vote selling networks (bid bots, direct sellers etc.) to pivot their own businesses into this area
Thank you!
As much as I would love to see more manual curation, I doubt that it's possible to make a business out of it. Delegators will receive way less return from us than what they're used to, and for our curators it's more about the love of curation and steem in general than making money. So it's not feasible to take a cut from either of both.
Who knows. When bid bots become unprofitable and delegators accept that the ROI of the past won't come back, maybe. I've seen that some added manual curation in the mix to not lose their delegators as they don't seem to sell as much as before any more, that's a good first step for sure.
I agree
It's hard to tell where the economic equilibrium will eventually set but I'll definitely do my part to make curation competitive by making vote selling as unprofitable as possible.
I don't really expect manual curation will compete with automatic curation, but either is far and away superior to a vote selling market which completely undermines POB and is what I believe the only realistic outcome of the previous broken economic system.
Maybe in the future you could turn this into a more general project where multiple curators can sign up and charge whatever rates as they see fit as well as any principles they use 'eg Supporting art, supporting X community, maximizing ROI etc'. Then you can tally it all up and people can order them by their approaches or by proven post fees ROI. On the other side, stakeholders can choose whomever to delegate. If the place starts looking more honest, I imagine some stakeholders won't even be looking to maximize ROI and are somewhat willing to take a small ROI hit to support a voting initiative they believe in specifically.
Anyway this is a great pivot for our entire ecosystem. Let's make honest curation (be it manual or automatic or hybrid) the norm. Ultimately even in pure ROI, with free downvotes floating about bot curation will also have to adapt quickly to manual downvoting habits.
There are manual curations such as Steem Follower but the problem is no one uses them. How do you convince people to use them?
just like how there's a page that aggregates bid bots, in the future I'd imagine there to be a page that aggregates curators, lists their fees, ROI, specialization etc, and stakeholders can go and delegate/follow accordingly
Now that’s an awesome idea. I wonder how nobody had mentioned it till now. It would make everyone’s life easier. Brilliant