Over the past few weeks on Steem I've had a lot of fun curating. Finding new posts, following new authors and expanding my education. I wish I had Steem in prison!

I started writing a post on why I think curating is more important than authoring. By curating you are contributing to author rewards and your vote gives authors more share in the rewards pool.

In the past I've used Hive account@xeroc's Streemian.com to follow the trail of some master curator's like Hive account@instructor2121 and after speaking to Ned about Curation Guilds I think this could be a very important feature for Steem.

Speaking to Hive account@furion he put together and tested a script for SteemPower and Hive account@garethnelsonuk has been expanding on it the past few days.

Right now, I'm donating all my voting power to project Hive account@curie

Right now the script is running in Alpha, and we are building out a web application where you can follow your favorite curators and authors when you can't be on Steem full time. Down the road, I think its important there be a way where we can donate a % of curation rewards to the curator.

Ned and the development team at Steemit have indicated they want to add Curation Guilds on the Steem blockchain, but I think moving forward with SteemPowerTrail is still important as it will be easier to test and roll out new features in an off chain application and competition is good!

To quote from this article: https://steemit.com/votingtrail/@acidyo/curation-trails-bad-or-good-for-the-platform by Hive account@acidyo

Voting trails take un-used Voting Power, turns it into a win-win situation for both parties, but also gives me a bigger incentive to curate better and improve the quality of the platform with others feedbacks through voting over time.
For instance, if I notice that some of my votes have not received many votes after it, you start to notice patterns over time and with the community slowly move into a "better quality" content agreement. This is something that happens naturally and is relevant to "Survival of the Fittest"

What are your thoughts? Would you join a guild? Would you be a curator?

-Charlie

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