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Curation is the act of giving out part of your reward pool to the authors.
Curation is another way of making more money on hive community. In fact some of the members of this community has become millionaires just by curating posts.
So, Curation can actually be divided into upvoting and downvoting, the quality of your post will determine if your post is worth upvoting or downvoting.
When you post a content full of plagiarism or if your post goes against the rules of the community, your content will get nothing but downvotes but when your posts contains contents that add values to the community, a post free of plagiarism, a post that follows the rules of the community, you will get an upvotes from majority of the curators in the community.
To my own point of view, curation in this case downvoting, is meant to wipe away unnecessary posts from the community so as to maintain the integrity of this community.
On the other hand, curation in this case upvoting, is meant to reward you for a job Weldon, for keeping to the rules and regulations of the community and to boost your moral towards posting more quality content.
When your posts get upvotes each time you post quality content, you will become relevant in the community. people will always look out to reading your posts. you’ll be known for posting quality contents. That’s what curation is capable of doing.
On a contrary, when your posts gets downvoted each time you post content in this community, then you’ll become less relevant, no curator will want to upvote your posts so yours posts become irrelevant.
CONCLUSION
The importance of curation is highly significant on hive community at large.
So I urge each and every member of this community to try our best to become a curator because curation is the key.