what claims to be curation on this site is nothing more than a race to vote first, it doesn't move quality content up to the surface like it was supposed to do. All changing the curation rate does is improve the pot the so called curators are racing for and takes away from the people who created the content.
True curation finds and highlights good quality content. This has been an issue right from the start that has gotten worse with the rate of spam increasing as it has.
Amen.
Yes, the way in which curation pays out is a joke, it should be time and order-agnostic. I would say the dearth of taste-makers in the face of a very small pool of people the initial distribution went to has a lot to do with why content is not more varied.