They could make the authors of the posts beneficiaries, who often earn less than the curation report, but then they would lose the farming.

These practices have even been copied by tiny projects that vote for pennies, and there are even individual users who publish their reports. Can you imagine if we all did our own reports? There are users who have two curation projects instead of one, so they can make two reports a day instead of one, and they vote for themselves.

The best way to find out how the project you delegate to votes is:
@username/trail