RE: Who benefits from Community Curators Accounts SC04-08?
Interesting to read all this @stef1, not sure exactly how to respond.
Personally speaking, I am not sure I have had any "double votes" from a major curation account. It's possible I've had Booming + Steemcurator01 a couple of times on posts related specifically to topics relating to the growth and promotion of Steemit.
As you well now, curation is a challenging and time consuming process done by human beings who are ultimately volunteers. They are not employees with a specific job related "rule book," at least as I understand it.
How much is a piece of content "worth?" Moreover, should excellent content be prevented from being rewarded in a way that makes it competitive with content that obviously is receiving some kind of purchased or "voting circle" benefit?
It's a complex issue!
I suppose we need to ask ourselves if the role of the Steemcurator/Booming programs is to maximize "spreading" the wealth, or give a major "bonus" to a relatively smaller number of authors.
In general principle, however, I agree that at least a cursory look at what votes have already been cast should be part of the curators' awareness. Maybe we should be looking more towards something under which there is an unwritten policy that "if a post is already rewarded to $10 or more, an additional community account vote is subject to review."
As I said, it's a complex topic... and an important discussion!
Hi @denmarkguy, I agree with you and like you I barely see the users getting double Steemcurator Upvotes, at least not in WOX community, but obviously there are in other ones.
I was actually shocked hearing from some of the Curators who responding here that due to lack of good content posts the user got so many Upvote, but then my question is how the Curators look and it is a shame because if this is not a single case then i ti s really bad. Like I mentioned in post I even did not dig into anything and actually I am afraid that I might find something that will make me disappointed so better do not know that.
Curator Job is not easy and I do not want to be in their shoes, but somebody should do that job. The only hope that the Curators have experience of being on Steemit and curating and also to remain fair under any circumstances.
Thank you for taking time and your feedback, as always it was my pleasure to hear your opinion :)