RE: Would you use a community curation app?

Voted for It sounds like a pain in the ass

No, really.
Every single dimension solution i have worked on fails.

So, like with movies, you find a critic/reviewer that shares your tastes and follow them. And, you are relying on them spending a great deal of their time sifting through all the movies coming out.

Aggregate numbers from upvoters (not paid) do not work well. Take myanimelist or rottentomatos. People who like the movie give it a high rating, those who would not like the movie tend to never watch it, so never give it a (low) rating. So, all the numbers range from 6 to 9 on a 1-10 scale.

Lets take one set of instances on steem.

You have memes, and you have long, thought out posts.
Now, i love me some "meme the news"
However, i dislike posts that are just one image, or one video and almost no comment. But, some of them are really good.
I like long posts, but not too long, that have a good flow and good information.

So, from my view, there has to be, in this tiny case, two curation-groups, because i know people who love them memes. And then a group for people like me who want to read and learn.

One curation-group doesn't do it.
One linear scale doesn't work.