Manual curation isn't back on track actually. With the new non-linear reward curve your vote is worth less when upvoting smaller accounts and it earns less curation when upvoting posts that you know won't at least get 5$+ payouts. All this while you have to work your way through a lot of Actift spam posts in order to find something good. So the name of the game right now is to put the big guys on an auto-upvote list if you want to get better returns. The good side is that the new system along with the fee downvotes helps to fight abuse. Still a long way to go.
yeah i completely agree with that. I remember say it when people first started to use Actifit but NOBODY LISTENED :P
Generally speaking i agree with you, what i can't understand though is that while this is a fact, many people and curation trails started to manually curate and searching for actual quality accounts no matter the rewards. Ofc a whole bunch of people that only cares about the money aspect either they openly admitted or not do the exact thing you talked about. Hopefully this change will turn for better but i am still cautious!