Finance of Curation

Recently I came across a post by @costanza, and it is one of the numerous KE ratio related articles that I tagged to lately :) Here is the post. The reason it sparked my interest because it is related to Curangel. It is a curation program I am involved in for a very long time. I want to give a full disclosure: I delegate to Curangel and I am very happy to do it, and nothing written on that post and this current post will change my decision how I am involved with that project. I respect all the curators there and many of them are my personal friends.

For those who need some background on KE, here is the post. I am not going to repeat what KE is and how to use it. I am not going to give anyone any prescription on how to use KE. You do you, Universe will do Universe!

First, I thought the title image was a bit sensational :) Curangel account having a high KE ratio doesn't bother me at all. In fact all curation programs which returns part of the curation to delegators WILL have high KE. This is a FEATURE and not a BUG!

Okay, with that out of the way, I did like some of the data presented in costanza's post on individual curators. I have decided to plot them, because, plots are always better than looking at a table. Disclaimer: I didn't look at the validity of the data, I am simply plotting the data he has listed and making an analysis.

There are 13 curators represented in this small sample, and this plot above is their individual KE ratio. High ratio is generally considered 'bad'. I used parenthesis, because good or bad is not simple, and more importantly, I shouldn't be the one deciding good or bad. It is not my job, I can only make that determination for my actions.

So in summary, if KE ratio for an individual account is 10, that individual currently holds 1/10th of the HP of their total rewards. However, for a some of those people, they don't even post, so whatever their KE is doesn't matter. Others with high KE post very infrequently, so for them, again I don't really care that their KE is high.

Who are they voting

I feel this is the more important part. As a delegator if this KE number is very high in the median, then I should maybe a little bit concerned.

Here is the data. This is the plot of the medians for the accounts our curators are curating in this sample. I generally consider not voting accounts greater than KE = 3. I only see 5 curators during such a thing. Again, this is my personal cut-off. I am not even aware if all the curators are even aware of KE, not to mention the cut-off. Also they certainly do not have to follow my personal cut-off. They can curate a post based on their personal quality cut-off.

There's that. I just wanted to get this out there, so that we can take a look at it. I don't really see anything concerning at all from my personal point of view.