Hi @stef1,

I just came across your post and believe that you highlighted an important issue.

• I think one reason behind the success of the user in question is, he's active in multiple communities. By just looking at the screenshot you shared, we can see four different communities in seven day period.
  
  People usually do that to get a chance for more booming upvotes as they can't get more than two booming upvotes through one community in a week.
  
  It's okay.. I think.. as the author is also putting an effort to create a lot of content which is quite a task so his rewards are justifiable(if the content is quality and if he's not voting himself ofcourse).

• One issue here is of tag irrelevancy. The user in question has used irrelevant tags which is a quite annoying thing for me as a curator. I'm not blaming here anyone, I don't know if users do it out of ignorance or what but it gets hard for curators.
  
  Imagine following a tag with hundreds of post, 80% of which have automatic upvotes, plagiarized content or the authors don't power up at all. The remaining 20% reasonable content which you are finally excited to curate has irrelevant content!
  
  Personally, I do not curate such posts which don't fall into the theme I have been assigned to curate. One example is the last post you shared. I came across this post on my curation day as it's got the lifestyle tag. I was about to curate it but to me the post looked more suitable for the My Life team and #thediarygame tag. So I simply skipped it. But if I had been short of quality content that day, I might have upovted it because it was the closest content related to #lifestyle.
  
  I would request authors to use the relevant tags only. Sometimes I see very irrelevant use of tags. For instance, an author used #travel in a food post with only home-cooked meals and no sign of stepping out of home. That's tag abuse.
  
  I also request other curators to not vote completely irrelevant content. Multiple times, I wanted to upvote a post in my theme and it already got an upvote from another team just because the author used their tags. In this case, I do not upvote that post.
  
  There are also some special situations ofcourse in which we have to improvise the curation strategy a bit. Like my team members also try to stick to the relevant content but, there are some categories like #sports and #garden in which there's not enough quality content so instead of wasting the VP, I think it's wise to vote other good content sometimes. But in any case, there shouldn't be multiple votes from sc04-sc08 on one post.

• About booming upvotes...
  We made a rule within our team that we won't curate same author more than twice a week to spread votes to the wider audience. We also skip posts that already got booming upvote and sc01-voted posts are always out of question.
  
  I asked the SC team if booming votes can be given to the posts already voted with sc04-sc08. They said, "no" and initially booming was skipping such posts as well. But now booming votes all posts, I don't know why.
  
  It's the duty of community admins/mods to not send such posts to booming. But again, sometimes a post deserves more rewards or there are not enough quality posts to be sent to booming which results into multiple votes on one post.

Therefore, we can't judge the intention of anyone unless there's some serious and obvious abuse of power. All we can do is to keep trying to do the curation job honestly and efficiently to support as many users as we can. As for authors, they shouldn't abuse the tags merely to bag votes from multiple curators.