In my case I would still curate manually as well, and delegate some SP to empower good manual curators to be able to directly reward content. The curator would earn more for themselves, and I would end up with a shortlist of content to review (by checking curators upvote history on blockchain) that I could then vote on as well (earning even more rewards for the curator).

I can always cancel the delegated SP at any time if I don't feel the curator is doing a good job, or is self voting excessively etc..

It's basically loaning a small % of my power to someone who I trust has the best interests of the larger community in mind , and a way to pay someone to partially prefilter my reading list with their own recommendations.

There's only so much 1 person can absorb in a day, every day, forever and being able to empower a team of curators to help look after the place in exchange for locking down a portion of your funds that you weren't withdrawing anyway is a pretty sweet deal imo.

Especially when they cannot possibly steal from you, and everything they do is auditable :)
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