Yeah, you're probably right about the rep thing, but I stand by everything else I've said in that comment.

I'm also looking forward to a community with verified users in some way where verifying you're a unique person through your other social media accounts or KYC if you are okay with it gets incentivized

I'm 100% with you on this. You must know as a curator that it makes life so much easier (when considering a guild 'large' vote) if a user has linked their steem page on another social media account to show that level of accountability and identity.

When I was super active with curie, during 2017 bull run, I used to occasionally comment on a new steemians post who was an excellent content creator, asking them to consider either making an intro post for verification, or linking their steem page on their YouTube/Blog etc so that I could submit them with confidence that content wasn't plagiarized. This was rare as generally reposted content is discoraged for submission, but sometimes the content was so good that it deserved to be an exception to the rule. Hopefully 'communities' will make this whole process easier in regards to verification. Maybe by building an 'opt in' place where people who produce high quality content, and don't mind verifying their identity in some way, can all interact, locking out the spam jockeys and shit posters. It would be a great way for curation guilds to boost the high quality up, with less of the work and I would imagine it would drive the value of any SMT attached to that community positively through the fact that a tone of decent content creators who've left steem for those very reasons of gaming mentioned above would return.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I'd like to see a virtuous cycle happen in a community where the potential rewards from manual curation from guilds, and other people who genuinely want to see quality and hard work go rewarded, provides higher incentive than all of the autovote shenanigans that proliferate now.

Many want to stay anon for many reasons and it doesn't mean it's just because they want to game the system or do something worse at some point.

I get this completely, but if you want to stay anon, then the reality is that you need to be aware that curators (especially) view your content with a healthy level of skepticism. Lol, but I guess that's what plagiarism checks are for... they are a ball ache though 😂 I'd prefer to see that 'utopian' community I described above emerge.