Well this type of behavior, to lie about how much "effort", 8-10 hours, you put into collecting the right kind of posts, is deplorable. This type of duplicity is not what I want to have. I will not be voting for him anymore, despite him having featured one of my posts. I can see this a less than honest person, given the contradictory information. They just need to watch the chat room and pick the posts in there... not even going through the "new" feed.

There is a great problem in Steemit right now, with people focusing on the financial incentive to just jump on the advertised "make-money" bandwagon that Steemit offers. This behavior is related to that. Steemit is supposed to be about curating meaningful valuable content, with the bonus of be rewarded for those efforts. If someone is just given the links... and claiming they spend 8 hours each day to find them... that is not honest community behavior and should not be supported.

I have written about the intent for meaningful quality content in the white paper, and how people should not be focused primarily on making money, but on helping to make Steemit a success by helping quality content become successful, and not simply jumping onto cult-of-personality popular content to ride their upvotes to some SBD and SP, either. 95% of the new posts are low quality fodder from people just trying to make some money without any effort and quality content creation, being opportunists like you say. This needs to change or the quality of Steemit will fall and so will its success, making it not attractive in the future.

Please consider reading what I have to say, as it is important to improve the quality of SteemIt and the content that is being created and curated: Steemit Succeeds if We Make it Succeed - Analysis to Help Yourself and Steemit Grow in Quality. I want more people to understand this and share it. I have shared it on FB. The upvotes are not required, and please only do so if the content is of value and appreciated, as I do with other posts I read.

This issue of low quality content flooding the Steemit platform needs to be addressed, and the importance of curating quality content as well. I fear for the future of Steemit. I invested money to buy into SP so that I could curate better quality content, and not simply the "popular" content that already has following . I hope more people will understand this responsibility to up their game and the quality of the community.

Thanks you for sharing what has been done here. It relates to the poor attitude and effort of many in the community who just try to make money and don't put Steemit and quality first.

Take care. Peace.