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So, who do you think benefits the most from curangel or ocd ?
Do independent curators, who vote the stuff they enjoy reading, benefit from curangel ?
Do influencers, who have a large audience (and seem to avoid Hive), benefit from curangel ?

Do independent curators, who vote the stuff they enjoy reading, benefit from curangel ?

Actually, yes.

One of the biggest issues with the curation rewards system as it is, is that there's hardly any time to vote manually after reading, which is really how it should work. This was already bad but got even worse when we moved from the 30-minute reverse-auction window down to 5 minutes.

However, because of the way @curangel votes posts with a several-hour delay on average, there is usually plenty of time for independent curators to vote content they were already going to vote before @curangel gets there. Assuming you understand how curation rewards work, you should recognise that this is actually very good for those independent curators who get their votes in first.