I've switched over to manual curation and am manually curating your post here lol.
But yes, it's really cool that big stake holders are doing this on LF. Not only do the curators benefit in the ways you mention (learn new stuff, get to know the community and the type of posts folk put out), the practice encourages engagement and attracts new users as many more accounts get to grow faster than they would if big-stake curators just pumped out 10 votes per day for their 50% (or even 100% if it's the kind of shitpost-selfvoting that used to go on in the ol' days of Steem).
Of such things - IMO - is 'Abundance' composed.
Thank You TMV
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