RE: You call yourself a curator?
Living in the middle of nowhere is far more wasteful than living in a building in the middle of a city. In the city, they can truck in the food for everyone, or better yet, bring it in by train, produce the power for everyone efficiently. You can live in a building where the heating is done efficiently for everyone at once.
We need to start building more buildings that are more efficient, that recycle heat waste heat, compost the entire building's organic waste, recycle everything, for real, have gardens to grow for the local people, locally, solar on every roof, wind power that doesn't go so fast it kills birds, just for efficiency, etc, etc.
As far as curation...we also need to build more efficient buildings. Voting as curation does not work. It might work a bit more...if there wasn't so much noise from utter shit being upvoted and bidbots. But everyone likes different things. There would still be shit in Trending, even without bidbots. We need people to build tools that don't rely on just votes for curation.
Not to mention, "curation" today is not fucking curation. What it is is being paid for voting, if you hold a fuckton of Steem. If you don't hold a lot of Steem, even if you are the one to discover a post and share it around and be responsible for actually curating it, you don't get shit.
I agree with the efficiency of cities, and collections of groups of people - even two people living together is more efficient than one. more arguments though ;)
This is for the frontends I think, the inflation pool rape shouldn't happen on the Steem pool.
Depends. @ocd pays their curators, so does @curie I believe. @acidyo at least has made it somewhat of a job and I am guessing that some of the people who do it well enough get paid more in SP than I do curating with my stake. I don't know the actual pay though.
Yes, we need tools that pay normal users in percentages of curation for finding awesome posts. If you aren't involved with those small curation efforts, you get nothing, even if you point them towards those amazing posts. This whole place is built on this false premise that stake can curate. Now we have to build tools to fix this broken mess.