If curation becomes more effective a larger portion goes to self votes. Self-votes are prevalent. Many accounts have 20% and more self-votes.

--> more uninteresting content, fewer users. Nobody cares about a "wale" upvoting a picture of his own face twice a day.

As emittent of a dApp like NextColony wouldn't you say that the customer and his experience is everything that matters for the success of a App? I mean a App is defined by the customer experience.