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.