I'm sure we have all heard this before, but I am here to remind us just how important manual curation is for the overall success of this platform. Steemit was designed as a place where everyone gets paid for creating AND curating content. I think the content creation part is under control, as we continually see posts hit the 'New' tab every few seconds or so.
There is a lot of content being produced here, and for the most part it is quality content, which is great for the platform. But there seems to be a missing variable to the equation that we are all trying to solve- human curation. Yes, there are manual curators out there, but simply not enough to meet the hefty supply of content being put on the STEEM blockchains’ shelves.
The supply keeps coming yet the inventory just keeps getting pushed further and further away from the consumers. This is not a very efficient method of advertising and selling content. Steemit is in dire need of more manual curation in order to reach the next level of success we all wish to experience as active users.
We, as users, are what keep this thing moving forward, so it only makes sense that we do just that. I make it my business to manually curate at least 20 articles every day I feel are worthy of an upvote. I also try to strategically place my upvotes for posts that will yield a larger curation reward using quality timing and a post's potential success/visibility.
It is very important that this message is spread because everyone needs to be on the same page here. It's just like anything else- teamwork makes the dream work. Let's all help each other and send STEEM to the moon. It is our duty as loyal steemians to do just that!!
When you read and manually curate a post, it is also beneficial to post a meaningful comment, too. This will likely increase the amount of interactivity on the platform altogether, which will lead new users to finding new authors to manually curate.
Obviously manual curation has its drawbacks, but there are ways to get around this. A lot of people set auto votes for users they think are contributing useful content to the platform. While this is likely considered auto curation rather than manual curation, it is sort of a combination of the two since you are personally setting the vote. Now you just have to do a lot less work, reading, and scrolling to find posts you wish to curate.