"Even with everything @smooth is doing, there is only so much content that his team of curators can process."
What prevents that other whales follow @smooth example? Back in late 90's Google also was using the dmoz.org directory to weight their results and the dmoz.org directory was/is human made with thousands of editors (curators).
They did, but eventually it evolved into an automated (?) system. Do we know, by the way, to what extent Google still uses non-automated input in its rankings?
I support the idea of trying to make the system support collaboration between curators in a native manner. It would make my life a lot easier. But it has to be done in a way that doesn't cause more problems then it solves, and that is always a huge risk in making these sorts of changes.
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Shouldn't that outcome possibly be instructive.