We need little incentives for people to actually do what they're supposed to be doing, curating.
I thought we are meant to be making good posts - I did not know that our main responsibility here is to curate...irrespective of the quality.
As should be obvious, I see it the other way around, we must find a way to incentivise authors so as to improve the quality of posts. Seeing a well researched and written article earn a fraction of what another post earns for publishing a photo from pixabay, just because the poster has a high rep and large voting power, is what discourages good posts being created.
You want to improve curating? Then provide curators with a way for them to find good posts. The Feed system does not work, it tends to be just as full of worthless posts as looking at new posts list. Not many have the time or patience to go through hundreds of 'rubbish' posts, just to find something worth curating.
An idea, for instance: You resteemed a post by #sircork, where a condition he places for taking part in his contest is this one:
ALSO Introduce us to your favorite steemian, with a short intro and a link to their latest still active post.
How about a 'place' or tag, where we can promote a post, for free. It must not allow self-promotion. I would say that it needs at least one 'promotion', but not more than five, as after that, it means a bot was paid to provide the votes. As a matter of fact, using a bot for this should be penalised.
This is a blogging platform. Well researched articles should earn well, but it takes a long ass time to write them. We can't expect everyone to just up their posting quality. There will be some amazing articles here, and just some mediocre ones. People doing part of their jobs as members and curating, finding the actually good posts, and rewarding them, and preferably sharing them, is what ensures great posts get rewards.
We shouldn't be curating irrespective of quality...that's not curating...
And this is what I usually talk about when responding to posts about the issues here, tools to make it easier to curate. But there are many ways to incentivize curation. In this case I was talk
The feed system isn't really made to help us find good posts though. It's made to help us follow people we like, just like on every other social network. We can then reward the people we follow for regularly posting. If you follow groups that curate, maybe you can find enough things to upvote with combination of the individuals you follow...but there are also a few additional tools. There need to be more though and Steemit should be integrating some.
There are some places, like discord groups, where you can put links to different steem posts that you've curated. It would be nice if you could get a list of posts curated by your friends though...
Thanks. How about a post with links and information regarding the systems for helping curators to find good posts.