Trails That Lead To Nowhere... Sometimes

It's funny how things turn around and how reputation is flushed down the toilet in a matter of seconds. True reputation is hard to earn in my opinion and that's beyond a number on a screen attached to a user account that says nothing about one's personality and intentions.

I have stated multiple times on my blog that numbers(reputation scores) often times don't count, as those can be easily gamed. I read a comment yesterday from @azircon on a @jrcornel post after some of the Hive community members have found out about the things this guy was doing and so on. It's irrelevant at this point to come with more judgements and other similar shit.

The idea is that @azircon in his comment was saying to @jrcornel that he's taking him out of his curation trails and that he advises @slobberchops to do as well. I have little to less interaction with both of them although we have encountered a couple of times through the comments section of a few posts and from what I remember I've had even a couple of posts curated by them. @azircon seems to be quite active on Leofinance as well, where I spend my time every day.

The idea is that using auto votes and following curation trails will probably end up to the point where one finds himself upvoting a person that at some point will disappoint. Can you take all the curation back from that guy once this thing happens? No, you can't. Have you contributed to the so called reputation, reflected in that user's reputation score, with your voting power? Yes, you did that...

Do you regret all the support you offered to such a person, that at some point deceives you? Probably...

Now I've been an advocate of manual curation, although never managed to hold too much VP that would change anyone's life by using it, because I've seen how flawed auto votes are, at least from my understanding. Probably from a business perspective, where one investor is following to max his capital, this is the way, but going organic like most of the Leofinance curators do is much more sustainable imo.

You don't even need to spend much time to put that VP to work on the plethora of posts that this blockchain hosts on a daily basis. I'd say around 15-20 minutes a day would be more than enough to curate content in here, quite good quality one I'd say, and support users that appreciate your curation much more than some superstars around here.

No offense, but some of the well established content creators around here are taking for granted some things that many of us are hustling for on a daily basis. To some extent you kind of end in a circle jerking group, because you end up having your favorite authors, and that's natural, you get upvotes from them to and the experience of Hive becomes somehow of a routine.

@jrcornel hasn't entered heaven with dirty boots, metaphorically speaking, but he's clearly disappointed some of his mates and everyday curators and now he's probably keep on doing his thing around here without the support of some users. Or whatever. He's not the only case as such.

In my three years spent on this blockchain I've seen multiple similar ones. When you no longer have to hustle for curation or have to work for your attention rewards you get to a convenience point where you just have to show up, put out content, irrespective of whether it's something that would indeed reflect the amount of curation of it or not. That's when you probably start thinking it's not enough and create yourself an alt one or try by any means of making more out of a lot.

Now if anyone reading this post is using auto votes massively, or following curation trails, should probably reconsider that. You might regret at some point supporting some users unconditional and overlooking others. I believe organic curation is the best, as it's more diversified, keeps the space alive and incentivizes content creators to hustle for it.

Auto votes and curation trails somehow create convenience and limit the broad spec of content that one curator can support. These practices are many years old now, and it's probably my narrow way of thinking that makes me not appreciate them, but I still stand on my view that organic curation is the best. Maybe I'm wrong... who knows. At least that's my view that I felt like expressing right now on this platform, that I've been part of for over three years.

It's probably not much in comparison with other veterans experience, but I've seen quite a few situations over these years and been part of the Justin Sun and the hard fork times as well. I have no intentions of judging anyone here, but felt like expressing my point of view in this regard and would like to read your take on the matter as well. By the way, how much of your curation is on auto?

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Thanks for attention,
Adrian