Centralised curation is a bad thing.

Is right in my experience. For example, I've tried making money on medium (using their partners program), but every single thing I've posted has either been rejected, or not reviewed at all with a message saying 'the network was too busy'. Now this might sound arrogant, but I know for a fact that at least half of those articles were as good as others I've seen on medium that have thousands of claps. So I can only assume that the curation team there have some parameters based on previous blog popularity or subject, or even that they simply won't share/reward articles from a user who hasn't bought 'priemium membership'. But I can't find out what the problem is because there is no way to communicate with them.

On steem there are many ways you can get feedback with such things and even just straight up ask people for advice etc. Also, with steem it's almost like a peer review system by the very nature of the fact that most people voting you are active content creators themselves.

In regards to 50/50 I do think it is encouraging more positive behaviours which is awesome. I've stopped self voting any of my posts simply cause is rather use that extra 100% elsewhere... but also from a purely financial perspective, I'm pretty sure I can make more if I hit the right post at the right time. It's a win win.

I see big things for steem over the next couple of years 🙂

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