Actually, I find it very hard for me to trust someone that said "i am doing this for your own good", the only person that love me so much for doing that was my own mother, and even then she was doing what she believed was the best for me but that doesn't make it right anyway, even the to best of intentions
If you want to use your stake and position to earn, I respect that. If you pretend you are doing it as some type of service, it's a turn off to me.
I also think the same, i am just a new user here and i don't want to enforce my own opinions to anybody else, i think it is best if just shared them, there is not point in making everyone think the same as i do, even regarding what i think it is a good content or a bad one.
A better way for saving the reward pool (and a more trust worthy way) from scammers would be promoting and helping new user, that are good authors and good curators, a central power figure will always lead to unchecked power, and one person has all the power good luck trying to bringing it down when his interest don't align with the users.