Hello, @sorin.cristescu, I wanted to stop by after having read your article "Best Way to Grow on Steemit" --Brilliant. I would recommend anyone to read. I very much agree that the greatest effort/ payoff ratio is in shrewd curation. That being said: you touched on a couple of points which I think deserve re-mentioning.

I like how you portray curation as a way for anyone to participate in the beauty of Steemit. As you mention, perhaps not everyone is a great writer, or has some other quite so "visible" talent--but, following certain guidelines, anyone can search and find quality content and support it. (ok, perhaps still not everyone, but, a healthy number). In fact, it is precisely, I would guess, this disparity in number between creators and curators that even allows the platform to operate effectively--there will always be more "consumers" than "producers"!!

Secondly, this knowledge surrounding effective curation is important for the author themselves; their view and operation. In other words, understanding and acquiescing to the fact that, in order to have a successful "production," he or she must have some humility; i.e., "support their supporters!" A symbiosis, as you said.

This is, of course, quite an old wisdom; yet, of course, many still do not believe it or follow it.

That being said, I do think, from a creator's perspective, there may need to be a period--in the beginning--when they are a bit more "selfish," to put it frankly: in other words--almost in order to get to the position to where one has the "power" to make these substantive changes, he or she must themselves be quite protective; doing things like up-voting herself, for example. I think early on, this is different. It is when a Steemian is super-whale status, and they seem to be going "hog-wild" with it, that it becomes the "abuse" we speak of.