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I don't really understand this. I use the steem power on cheetah to downvote spam/plagiarism, that does not earn a reward. Curating to self fund doesn't make sense? I could invest 100k steem in cheetah and curate to curate to turn a profit, but that's an investment producing a return, not a 'self funding' thing -- why not just invest it in my normal account and curate like I do already.

Perhaps you shouldn't be letting automation tell humans what they can and can't be doing. Seems to me that this is YOUR way of telling people what to do, If that is the case, then yes, you should fund it yourself.

Simply smacking the crowd with the same automated stick in hopes of hitting the right people is the wrong approach.