All right. Please. Give a list of all Hive users with significant stake that do 17%+ curation APR.
The size of your stake has got nothing to do with it (see below).
I'll give you an example with a private message because I don't want encourage copying profitable auto-votes.
The APR becomes harder and harder to push up the bigger your stake.
No at all because you can easily automate high-frequency voting with a small voting weight or spread out your voting power over a number of alts.
"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.
They could easily automate front running.
"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.
How common is that?
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.
A lot of individual Hive users with a large stake seem to be largely absent and drop votes on the same circle time and again without even opening the posts.
I have received a lot votes from those curation projects in the past year but never on what I'd consider low-effort posts. Admittedly, they haven't often voted on my very best posts, either. This is why I said your criticism of them preferring posts that haven't received many large upvotes, yet, is valid.
It seems that the largest one of them prefers photography posts of mine containing a dozen or so mostly smartphone photos, which never suck but are not the best I take, either. My posts with at least half a dozen photos, and a story connecting the photos into a whole, taken with a DSLR and carefully edited have been upvoted by @rocky1 and @upmewhale a lot of times each in the past year. Their votes are not usually immediate although they can be.
I have never been at the receiving end of any large auto-votes in my 3.5 years on this platform.
Would you rather go back to vote buying and circle jerks?
I was flagging long before people got bailed out by the subsidized downvotes.
I commend your tireless efforts.
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.
The three large curation projects are a massive improvement over the past situation when you were completely shut out if you weren't part of a circle.