At this point I’m just here to make likeminded friends and get as much payout as I can doing it so we can put our efforts and resources elsewhere if greed tears the community apart to the point where no true human beings exist on the platform.

I personally feel curation should have been encouraged through the upvoting of good curation initiative posts like @ocd and @sneakyninja, rather than receiving payout, since it incentived the curation of typically trending users with the promise of big curation rewards rather than real quality material.