About Curator
The curator was originally referring to all voters. The moment you recommend or disagree with this article, you become a curator.
The curators that are commonly used at present are those who receive the power that delegates to a person with a lot of steam power (so called whale). This is a one-to-one relationship between the two, not from the community level.
Reasons for Steam Power Delegation
If a whale delegates steam power, it loses money because it loses its curation reward. Therefore, there is no financial reason.
The first reason whale delegates steam power to the majority is the dispersion of power. This is because the community, rather than the whale-dominated community, is aiming at a community decided by the majority.
The second reason is the diversification of perspectives. As each curator approaches from a different perspective, the voting pattern will change. As a result, more equal compensation is likely.
Of course, there is no time to board, and the power of the board is bad.
Conversely, you may want to concentrate the power of your small accounts into one. This is not happening at present.
Individual Responsibility
Whales need to make sure that delegated curators are in good working order. This includes the variety of voting patterns, content evaluation, and more. In the case of using a bot, you will only receive a fallacy in the content evaluation section. (Just whales can turn the bots themselves)
Curators can work freely within the scope discussed with the mandator. But you have to be somewhat responsible for the power you have delegated.
Now that I've talked about it, I've been looking at the voting patterns of those who are currently offering long-term power leases. (If other people ask me, I will give you the data). Based on the May data, three of the curators' four voting patterns were quite similar. These three voting lists were almost the same from the top 1 to the 7th place (7th place by one person), and 1581 views were made to these seven authors in a month. About 2.5 times a day per author. I am very concerned about this, and I hope that this will be improved. Thank you.
One could argue that those with the most invested have most interest in what content finds it's way to the Hot and Trending sections. I do understand that there should be more emphasis on leveling the play field for upvotes however.
Great post. I would love to see the data.