A lot of curation guilds and communities has been created but have not received support from the likes of Ned or Dan who is busy flagging each other.
They would have to rely on some good intentioned whales and dolphins in order to get delegation or vote trailed in order to make it appealing for people to create good content.
You get someone who works on a good quality content piece for more than 2 hours and get cents and then you have a person who creates memes gotten from the net and is given 10 dollars because the delegation for it is so high.
So what recourse would the person do but join teh bandwagon and do memes as well. We came see this trend with dolphins and whales as well
Create short Zappl or dmania content, upvote the hell out of it and rack the rewards.
I have to be honest getting curied was life changing for me but afterwards it was harder because the bar was raised and no matter what I did I just couldn't get it again and so in order to grow I had to change my tactics from being a content creator to an investor.
I try to keep writing good content but I have been boosting it to the trending page in order to get more votes and followers.
It's pointless to create golden shit posts like a two paragraph and one image post of Marvel characters 5 times a day and get votebid for it because no one will see the value and the posts is basically a bidbots graveyard of confirmation of bids but little to no Engagement whatsoever.
Don't even get me started on those that recieve a whale bot because they were are in in the trail or they vote beg. Then they shit post because they know that they supported so quality goes out the window. Imagine 5 shitty content and it get upvote then you are a alone again.
Then there are those community incubation projects that if you are not a member then you don't get support. It disrupts the whole idea that anyone can be supported if they show the right skill.
My community is no different that try to strengthen itself on its own because no one cares for it.
Incubation projects are so busy Circle jerking each other to care outside of their clique.
It is a rather pessimistic view and it either you adapt and suffer for the lack of support. In the end people like me are forced to bid for bots in order to have a chance to be successful in Steemit.
It's a sad truth.