This is an amazing post. I learned so much about curation from you just now, thank you.
With that being said, it is really disheartening to see the "sockpuppet" rings here on Hive revved up every days around a certain group of posters and communities.
We all see them....I notice a lot of the accounts are seemingly belonging to Africans from Nigeria or Uganda here. They make a post or two a day about random, pointless nonsense, often in bad English (even though Nigeria's official language is English, but I digress..).
Those accounts and posts get at least 20-100 HIVE per post. It's very dishonest.
I'm over here putting my neck out, saying dangerous, very offensive things, and I praise Jesus and God Almighty (not the Jewish God though) if I get 1 hive for a post I put a lot of thought and autism into.
There is plenty of poor curation and scam around and it is always going to "have a place" because in general, people will be people.
Maybe this is the issue?