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I follow tribesteemup and antiabuse because i contribute to those communities, but optimally we just vote the content we read.
The pitfall of curation trails is voting its heirarchy more than the nobodies.

Ganging up to increase rewards makes it harder for everybody outside the gang.

But, as things currently are, mined stake has its thumb on the scales, we dont really have a choice, if we want to keep up with inflation/abuse by actually playing the game of 'distribute the inflation'.
If the field was level, just earners and buyers, i would denounce ganging up loudly, but while authority decrees who gets rewards, and who doesnt, i keep my head down.
Bidbots and vote selling break proof of brain in favor, arbitrarily, of proof of wallet.

@freebornsociety votes my reading list, but maybe you should just vote who you follow.
Use steemauto.com to set you a list of authors you support.
I try to only vote posts with less than a dollar from folks i follow with the two accounts.

Playing curation for maximum rewards breaks proof of brain.

At some point, inflation, boredom, or price collapse will change the game back to proof of brain.
Until then, and even after, you got to do what you do.

Did that help?

Yeah you helped a lot. It's unfortunate that proof of brain isn't ruling the votes currently. I guess I need to make sure the curation trail I follow actually supports content I'm willing to back.

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