First of all I would like to thank you for being who you are. You are an example for many steemians out there. As a person who has been benefited from your upvotes from time to time, I am glad that you enjoy(?) my content.

As for your curation goals, even though you didn't have to ask anyone for"instructions" you wanted to know what the community thinks over that matter...and I think it's great.

I can only speak for myself. I manually curate posts on the "new" category regardless of the subject. Different people have different tastes so what for me might be a great post for you might happen to be the biggest shitpost ever made. So quality is kinda subjective...I also have some proven authors whose content is great for me, in auto pilot You are one of the very big stake holders of the platform so your vote, even though steem's price has dived as never before, can still make a huge difference. Even a small% of it. For me, the trick is a) to keep supporting those who are consistent and have a relatively good quality, b)support some newcomers which are going to struggle for sure.

You are already doing a great job so hats off to you anyways!