Manual curation is important.
I have something like 45,000 votes cast and besides a couple very short experiments, all are manual. It makes a difference in my opinion as it connects me to people I connect with. Blind voting doesn't represent my interests and therefore those it votes on aren't likely interested in me either. No commonality, no relationship, no network.
What would be interesting is if an interface like could implement it into their UI so that I could set it, read an article, vote and it would automatically delay it. Possible
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RE: The maximization curve