Hey @anomadsoul thanks for popping by, for your comment as well as your vote. Apologies for the late reply, we always read all the comments on our posts but mostly our writers reply.
We read your post and we are in full support of #newsteem and making a better brighter new steem community, through supporting good content and content creators. We’re all for manual curation and have recently implemented better strategy on voting users who put their hearts into making this a great place, especially by looking for content under #created and #new like you recommend in your post.
Posted by: @morkrock