As opposed to new users only identifying and engaging with a small circle.
This is what the short-sightedness really shines light on because there is nobody who can look into the future and say "yes, this is the perfect size for POB and any more people would ruin the platform".
Not sure if there is a "right" answer to that, but curious of your opinion:)
I think @leprechaun said it best and I'd add that if you can't find the time to vote responsibly, find a responsible curator with a trail who can (link to @vempromundo's latest post)
I wonder if it would make sense for wallets or dashboard to provide a suggested list of manual curators worth trailing. I know from the past 4 years that the imposed need to curate in order to "not lose out" against inflation has caused people to just power down and sell on Hive in the past.
Anyways, I myself have mostly enjoyed manually curating for almost all of my 4 years here, so mot really thinking about myself in this case.
I think that's a great idea. There could be stats linked to it which highlight how many votes they make in a week, how many different authors, links to their hivetasks or hivestats, what authors/tags they frequent, etc etc, the list goes on. There are going to be problems with curation trails if no responsibility/accountability is taken by the curator, if all their data is blindingly clear to see they might think twice.
I prefer manual curating myself too, I think I directed that comment to you as if someone else was reading it, lol. I had quite a few to reply to yesterday morning and my belly must have been growling towards the end.