So that leaves a bunch of people like me stuck in the middle where, hand on heart, despite the fact I do post good stuff, my path with the 'trusted curation initiatives' have never crossed, and now my rep is deemed too high for them and too low for you.
The other thing re the 'trusted curation initiatives', there are many other established ones on Steemit as well such as the Steemitworldmap. We're the first curation programme dedicated to travellers and are coming up to the 230rd daily Travel Digest. We have OCD and Curie curators on the team and manually go through every single post that is pinned to the map regardless of user rep and focus in quality content only. We try our best to keep a blacklist but there's only three of us, but fair to say we've curated lots of good content as well.
It is likely you will get there very soon! :)
The curators list is not final and we are more than happy to expand it. Get in touch on Discord for that.
Thanks for your feedback and we hope to hear more about your curation efforts soon!
Yep, I'm in the same boat as you Living. It's shit.
You?! How?! Even I got curied and steemstemmed!
Never got curied. I'm not science person or dev so I don't get those big upvotes. Unless ausbitbank upvotes my posts, they really don't make anything. It's one of the reasons I've lost faith in the platform.
Not a science person or dev either. I wrote a post about whale vomit as some delicious click-bait and tagged it as steemstem for lolz. It got steemstemmed and curied. I loled so hard...
Maybe someone was just trying to encourage your behavior.
I remember the post.
Plus you represent an audience that complements steemSTEM but it's not overly active, so any vote cast is an exposition of our values and brings back interest in the project.
:D
You got friends in high places @techslut! Maybe I should try that 🤔
Please do!
See @techslut ? Interest :D