I must admit that in my beginnings I was like this Why does he have this much rewards on his post?
But, I didn't quit, I wanted to know why is that so. Later on, I realized that some people did so much for this blockchain and their reputation is what gets them rewards.
I hope manual curation will not die :(
Nah curation won't die completely. It could grow given the right incentives and custom tokens for manual curation, etc although that is difficult to determine. I realize the changes in the curation curve will put a lot of dapps and services at an disadvantage but that doesn't mean curation has to continue dropping forever as there are a lot of different ways we can encourage them once SMT's are live.
Nice, waiting for those SMT's to finally come then.
I too, hope that it will not die.
I don't mind the using of tools to pre-filter content, but in the end, curation of value requires reading the content and making a personal judgement. This is some thing that computers (at least for now) just can't do well.
I also hate entitlement. I am relatively new here. Instead of immediately jumping to the I deserve it response, people should be looking around and puzzling out how do "they" get so much steem?
What does it take for me to get what the others have.
For me, it seems that the inescapable conclusion is "work hard". This includes comment, invest in my own STEEM, publish, and generally interact. None of these things can be done without some effort on my part. Many of them do not bear fruit when done once. The aggregate of all of these things done diligently will produce results...eventually....maybe.
I look at it this way if I want something and am not willing to work at least a little for it, then I am stealing! Full stop! I don't want to be a thief, so the only way is to wade in a work :-)