Appreciate the comment, now I'm curious what that mention was. :D

For me personally I care a lot more about how much time users put into their hive activity over KE, if they're contributing then who cares if they have no stake, it mainly sucks for them next time hive goes up and they may find themselves in a position where it's hard to earn that stake back since more people come back and new ones arrive.

I do however still see a lot of, let's say, careless curation. Where projects/stakeholders don't care if the author isn't being consumed at all and there's no signs of it anywhere as well as no signs of the author even trying to connect with others and build an audience to justify the rewards they get. They may not be big right now in terms of $ but it's still a lot more hive than many others get who may be doing more and trying harder. That's something I wish curators would try better at so others aren't forced to step in with downvotes when it becomes too much.

I even have friends who've posted occasionally but if I noticed they weren't really contributing in other ways I've had to ignore their posts or vote them much lower due to it, while others seem to think that we have to keep these authors active and posting at any cost, even if they barely do anything else other than post and collect rewards.

So it takes a lot for me to downvote some users and I never zero out the rewards on those usually, but I try to stay neutral about it and justify it by what I see after doing some research and crunching some numbers. Some times I may downvote some users for other reasons but hey, we're only human. :D

I notice I'm already following you, I haven't been able to curate much the past year as I've focused my curation on traffic generation, but hopefully I can split up voting power a bit more in the future.