I take this opportunity to tell you about something that happened to me in this regard and that serves as an example to see the abuses that these reports bring:
I posted in the largest community of Photography (which I will not mention) They included my post in their report and I realized that they had not voted for me. When I asked them they told me that they don't have to vote for me and to thank them for advertising me with their report. So their reports are not for curation, they are for posting.
When I asked them to remove me from the report they muted me in the community, leaving all my posts of years made in that community silenced.
The moderator now lives by posting reports from his personal account, when before he used to post good original content. I guess he got a better “crack the game”.
From there I post in another Photography community that although they don't have much voting power, if they do curation to add to their reports (not for “advertising”).
As far as I know they don't vote on all the posts in their compilations because they include so many there, that's at least a reason I vote those because they go over so many. Not all posts may be underrewarded but their report may not just be about finding underrewarded posts but a "best of" kind of thing.
the mute seems exaggerated and I don't agree with it, maybe there's more to it than just that? do you have a link?
anyway there's a lot more that goes into this than just picking up posts for curation, there's moderation of communities, checking for abuse/past history and overall user engagement etc, so I find it a bit reckless to say they're just trying to make rewards from your post when yours is highlighted and included in a post with 30 others there. This whole approach about reports to me now seems convoluted since you already had a bad experience from the beginning that may have fueled your judgement towards them for the worse.
That was a long time ago and to go looking for that curation report is not in my plans.
I know very well the work it takes to build community. You can argue about the amount of work they do, everyone will have a different view and it would get you nowhere. What can't be denied is that it's not original content, it's repost.
Edit: *curation report
It's a report as most of them mention, just because you didn't get voted because you probably do well enough doesn't mean that they're "leeching rewards" from others content because they decided to highlight your post as one of the better posts that day in that community. I really disagree with you on this and hope you realize how bad it sounds at some point.
My opinion is not based on the example I gave. Most of the reports are wrong.
I would like to see weekly reports with the best posts of that week and an explanation of why it was chosen from the official account. This would indeed add value, as we would see the expert opinion of the moderators. Copying and pasting posts daily doesn't seem of value to me and I don't think it will change minds...nor do I think it will change the opinion of the community that has normalized it.
I can't speak for all communities but there is a lot of work that goes into properly curating posts. You won't see our curators for instance voting on authors that I mentioned here that get thousands of hive per week but haven't commented in over a month or don't get any engagement. It also prevents curators from trying to do shady stuff like voting sockpuppets and too much on friends, etc since they already receive rewards for curating. Not to mention creating a list of people that shouldn't be curated for different reasons and checking they aren't on that list along with finding abusers and downvoting them. It's a lot more work than just voting for some accounts daily.