I have biases as well, some friends I vote extra compared to some others

I also share your bias. I think that if one has friends and one wants to support them, one way to do so is to vote on their posts and I see nothing wrong with doing so. However, if one of my friends, so to speak, makes a post that I consider inappropriate (spam, plagiarism, etc.), I would not vote for him/her, despite my planktonic voting power, I also have criteria to define what to vote and what not to vote.

Well, considering that in this place you can contribute in many different ways and that we can make sure to reward every valuable effort to both content creators and curators, have you come up with the idea of presenting a formal proposal in the Decentralized Hive Fund(DHF) to the whole community to explore and implement new ways of curation in a cooperative and coordinated way? I think it would also be a possibility that what you have observed and written about for a long time (some projects still operate in a way where they focus their curation based on who delegates to them), could perhaps vary or change in certain ways. Metrics could be built to evaluate those changes. And, on the other hand, you could also evaluate everything that has been done in the community in terms of attracting and supporting new users. Does that sound like a viable idea?