Sounds to me like maybe an issue with the site. On my blog I started a concept called #payitforward where I visit other people's blogs looking for insightful commentary on topics I care about and invite the poster to come to my post, link in and I upvote them.
This is done so that if I happen to trend, then lots of people will see lots of other content. Some of it related, some of it not, all of it was important enough that I took some time to bring it to their attention.
The hope being that anyone who visits me will see these other topics and give them a shout out too.
The exchange is tit for tat. I link and upvote them, they link and upvote me. If either of us gets the attention of anyone else, then there is a good chance we will both be found.
It's just a different form of curation and is potentially more powerful than the way it's done now. If nothing else, people get insight into what I think.