My comment has been intentionally delayed until now @steemitblog. First, to give credit where I reasonably can, it is great to see you actively working to improve curation efforts towards those working hard to add value to the Steem blockchain.

It will be interesting to see your final decisions on who you have chosen to support to accomplish this objective.

What I would like to ask about are your future plans to address the opposite of curation. Surely, you either are or at least should be aware of accounts who abuse the reward pool. For their own benefit. At the expense of others.

Your long term success will be dependent upon actively and effectively addressing both aspects of how others choose to "participate" here on the Steem blockchain. I do not need a direct answer. Many of us will know, based upon what you write about this topic in the future, whether or not this is deemed to be important to SteemIt's plans.

Thank you.