I used to do a lot of Manual Curation on Hive. Scrolling through various tags and communities to see what was worth supporting can become a bit of a time-sink that I really haven't been able to afford lately. I even had a go at writing my own curation / evaluation system a few years back, but since the hardfork where they changed how the curation rewards work I've taken the view that none of it has really been worth the effort. So I changed strategy...
Now I focus on Hive authors who consistently produce decent content and have enough track record (reputation) that I can trust aren't going to take advantage, and I put them into an auto-voter. In many ways it's kind of an accreditation process for people who I will support. It's easier, it means I can still support people adding value to the Hive ecosystem and my curation rewards are not really impacted. They remain pretty flat regardless of who I upvote.
I'm supposed to review my accredited authors fairly regularly but life has been busy lately and my zest for Hive activities has been tested, however this week I am getting my act together and doing a full review. The first part of that is to cull those authors who haven't maintained standards. That's resulted in 13 accounts being removed from my voter. I've also tweaked a few accounts up or down in the vote weights for various reasons - That's all part of the review.
Now I'm looking for some extra content creators to replace the ones I've removed. I actually have a good chunk of Hive coming off cooldown so my vote value is significantly higher than it was 2 weeks ago. I'm looking for authors who :-
1. Create decent medium/long form content
2. Post regularly (not more than daily, not less than weekly)
3. Have a good reputation (no issues with Hivewatchers)
4. Are re-investing author rewards back into Hive (not just extracting value)
If this sounds like you then get in touch with me on Discord and I'll check out your content. Similarly if you are one of the authors who I've just dropped or have a query about your vote weight changing then feel free to reach out and I'll explain my thinking.