Community Curators Project?

I am still not convinced that the Community Curators Project will be a net positive for Steem. As many pointed out in the comments of the announcing post, this is weirdly constructed and ripe for potential abuse.

But if they are going to do this...

Why should they not support an established initiative like @steembasicincome?

Steem Basic Income is an account-based curation program, providing regular support to a crowd-sourced list of active Steemians. Over the last 2 1/2 years, Steem Basic Income has delivered over 1 million upvotes, supporting thousands of accounts. The majority of supported accounts have never contributed to @steembasicincome for their votes, being generously sponsored by a small group of active donors.

Steem Basic Income has been proven to improve the experience of supported recipients and boost user retention, all without any support from Steemit and minimal support from existing whales.

Furthermore, SBI split off a sister program (Hive SBI) after the fork, making it easy for people leaving Steem to receive support on Hive instead. This means any new support of Steem Basic Income here on Steem would support those that continue to support Steem.

While the easiest way to support @steembasicincome on an ongoing basis would be direct delegation, we have worked out a relatively simple method to point independent curation accounts at the existing crowd-sourced curation list.

Steem Basic Income has never powered down and dedicates all author and curation rewards to the support its crowd-sourced curation list.

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If you would like to be considered as a Community Curator please make a post giving details of…

• The Community or subject areas you would like to curate
  If selected, Steem Basic Income would support the crowd-sourced list of thousands of active Steem accounts. The list has already been vetted to remove accounts engaging in Spam, Plagiarism, and fraud. Support is granted acrosss all subject areas and communities, with the exception of NSFW. This tag has never been supported by Steem Basic Income.

• Your experience and background on Steem
  As noted above, I have extensive experience and background on Steem, as Steem Basic Income has already supported thousands of accounts with regular upvote support.

• Any languages you are fluent in
  I am only fluent in English, though I can read Spanish and Portuguese okay. That's not super relevant to my application, as the supported account list is crowd-sourced without consideration of language. SBI has had community members translate its FAQ into eight other languages. https://steemit.com/steembasicincome/@steembasicincome/helpful-sbi-resources

• Why you think you would make a good curator
  Our project has a proven history of crowd-sourced account-level curation.

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