I think that everyone should at least spend 10 seconds to look at the post they are going to curate so they don't upvote randomly. No need to read whole article but just have general view if it is not some awfully edited copypasta or "1 sentence 1 YT video link post".
If, after that, we still get bamboozled into upvoting some content that appears duebious (plagiarism etc), then we should be willing to remove the vote or flag when steemcleaners point it out.
"Art, photography, etc. can be digested in a much shorter period of time.) "
I agree that it is easy to digest but also this is often high quality content because people invest a lot of their effort to create it good quality art. The amount of effort put to create art can be easily judged. That includes photography - you have to spend a lot of time and trials to take good shot of something.
I absolutely agree that spending at least a little time actually inside the post is the ideal...or at least somebody in the sense of a curator with autovote followers. In some sense that proposed change to reduce the amount of 100% votes (from 40 to 5) could help with with, since we wouldn't feel pressured to 'use all our votes.' We've all only got so many hours in the day to post, chat, comment, promote, etc. on top of actually digesting/voting on posts...oh and life itself outside of steemit. Personally this is somewhat how I took it when @dantheman said the 40-5 vote per day allowance (vs the vote power % regen rate) was needed a better understanding from the userbase. (I could be wrong on this, just my take.) But as it stands, I suspect that even the best of us have a hard time fully digesting long form written posts. This specifically is why I commonly taught newer people on how to make their content easy to scan via headings, bolded words/phrases, etc. so that after the second paragraph or so, when most people just start scrolling down, can still follow and grasp the main points being made. Time constraints and attention scarcity can somewhat (even if imperfect) battled in this way.
On the found plagiarism posts I'm totally on the same page there. I can say that I do this myself (remove upvotes, sometimes flag) when this is the case and I see it. The hard part there is that we don't always go back to a post after the fact to even see the steemcleaner comment. I will say it irks me a bit when I have seen things be upvoted even after the comment was made and it would be nice for the userbase in general to be on the look out for that.
I should say that I have absolutely no issue with art, photography, etc. is easier/quicker to digest. I do not mean that they hold any less value than written posts, just merely referring to the required 'curation' time for these. We just rarely hear complaints about these visually transmitted posts being rewarded while 'poor quality.' Usually the complaints seem to be around the non-visual, written ones...the only reason I made that distinction.
Hey there, do you think since you are kinda techy, you could comment with your ideas here??? Thanks for everything... BD
https://steemit.com/steemit/@barrydutton/steemit-needs-please-comment-with-your-ideas-to-improve-steemit-e-1