Well obviously the most important thing here is the original post, but just as we consider "ineffective curation", I think it is valid to dwell upon --if for an instant-- the mess these comments have turned into; I mean, part of the curation process obviously includes useful and insightful comments, right? Well, how the f* can that be achieved with this post at least if all we see are "please don't SPAM", hidden comments, comment chains too deep to even fit in the page...
I mean, after all, what really matters is that @blocktrades got the money for the authorship and that the rest got the curation rewards, but, really, if comments were to be seriously be taken into account, THIS would definitely NOT be the way to do it... I for one made about 10-15 attempts to find a comment (a reply to me) by @valued-customer, but it was useless. I desisted, and instead he gave me a full text of what he referred to by his comment... Bottom line though, stuff as this should not happen to a community devoted to authorship and curation.