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*I don't know if you guys know, but I was working as a curator in d.tube for about six months. We were checking videos in a special chat and using a bot to upvote the content without having the keys of the main account. They did that to make it easy for curators to upvote any content without using the main account that had about 2 million voting power. That was interesting to do. So, curators were just rewarding each other by upvotes because most of the curators were creating videos.*

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So, I was very passion about the platform and I noticed a lot of abuse and decided to fight it. The abuse was in form of using any videos from the web to upload on dtube and earn. So, we were reporting those videos, and they were downvoted by the main account manually by the owner. Sometimes I had even to interview people to make sure that the content is theirs. It wasn't that easy, but I was excited, and I liked to do that. Because as a non-native English speaker, that was a great practice to improve my speaking skills and to build a community at the same time. That's how I built @dcooperation. 

But when I was a curator in dtube, I didn't like that much to be rewarded by upvotes. I preferred to earn liquid steem for that. I thought that will be good to not abuse the reward pool and to make curators have more time to curate instead of creating content. In fact the owner has nothing to lose when the curators get rewarded by upvotes, he didn't have to share his earnings and that was really useful for him. @reseller was a curator before me and he was the one who invited me because he saw me active in the platform. He also defended the idea of paying curators in liquid instead of upvotes. In the end that wasn't applied anyway. 

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*I don't know if I'm right about this or not, but I still think that the hard work should be paid in liquid but not in upvotes. Firstly, it will save the time of the worker and also the reward pool will not be abused in any form. Because it may look like a project where the leaders are rewarded the most, but other members don't have that privilege. I can see that happening in some communities, and that's maybe what making some people angry. They may don't understand why we have to have a hierarchy in a decentralized platform.* 

As I wrote before : ''We shouldn't write only about the issue, but we should also give solutions''. So, the only solution I see here is to reward curators and those who do a great work in a particular platform, community, application, tribe ... etc. To reward such people with liquid without pushing that trending to not confuse people who join us. People will be clear that the content is mostly rewarded here and the activity and other valuable things they do for the community. I'll be even happy to see those workers getting even more in liquid instead of what they get from upvotes. Imagine someone earns that in form of upvotes and losing everything with one single downvote. The work will not be paid, and we may lose such valuable player who would do a lot of great work here. 


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*I'm not defending the idea of rewarding the work by liquid. That's why I wrote the title in a form of question.*

#### I would like to know what the community thinks about all this ?



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