11-13% APR actually sucks.
14-16% APR is trivial to accomplish
All right. Please. Give a list of all Hive users with significant stake that do 17%+ curation APR. The APR becomes harder and harder to push up the bigger your stake.
That's not very much. I'd take your claim more seriously if they dropped a lot of sub-1% votes in which case they'd have to vote over 1000 times a day.
They put in that weight because of a certain curation curve. You only put in sub 1% if you are frontrunning. If you have large stake, you want enough to beat the curve and be the single largest vote on the post.
Curation projects whose curators have developed a routine where they process a large number candidate of posts quickly.
They VOTE through large number of candidates quickly. It's not uncommon to have some of those votes retracted due to HW or someone tipping them off something was wrong.
Try doing some anti-abuse sometimes. Most curators don't dig that deep. There's no time for that. They vote first and usually don't ask questions.
Would you rather go back to vote buying and circle jerks?
I was flagging long before people got bailed out by the subsidized downvotes.
There are still circlejerks that exist, but like to disguise themselves as a "community". You just don't see it on the surface. There are backroom deals that exist, but you don't see vote buying on-chain.