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<center><h2>Manual Curation Is Awesome.</h2></center>

I have always enjoyed manual curation and I have personally always felt that it's the **ideal** way to curate as it often result in more engagement, meaning more comments and discussions about the actual content. It is also within the comment section we get new ideas for future content, and we can see a huge upwards trend in rewarding comments on LEO recently as well. Everyone will benefit from more engagement.

Manual curation is superb to motivate and encourage both authors and content consumers and the reward curve change on #LEOFinance happens to do something more than that..

> - *Have you ever felt that your content is ignored and neglected?*
> - *Have you felt overlooked and have you felt that your work yields slim to no rewards?*
> - *Have you been jealous of other authors who seem to attract a huge audience?*

It's totally okay to admit it. Most people have felt that same frustration at some point. Some people never change their mindset and they continue to experience this.. Some people use the success of others as inspiration and motivation to produce more, better or different. They use the frustration as fuel to grind and push themselves forward.

Personally, I've experienced literally everything during my 4+ years on the blockchain.. But eventually, I stopped caring about the results of others and I stopped caring about the rewards. To some extent.

I am honest, so I will tell you that I obviously prefer to be heavily rewarded instead of being overlooked and ignored with zero rewards.. But that goes for everyone here. In the past though, I got so affected by these things from time to time so I actually stopped posting or stopped being myself.. 

- *What was the point?*

Nowadays, due to **manual curation**, things are changing. You don't need to curate within a 5 minute window to maximize your curation rewards. You can sit back and enjoy the show while curating at your own pace. You can curate content you **like** and content you **want** to curate, and that is the reason for me to believe that it will have a huge impact on the overall engagement as well.

I can totally see how auto-votes could be a great thing, if used properly, but if you can use something to benefit more or easier than others, people will do that. That's how it is.

In my opinion, auto-votes took away discussions, interactions and engagement. Say what you want about auto-votes, but auto-votes reduced the quality, charm and passion for content and it paved the way for spam- and low quality posts. I can't say that it destroyed everything, and I **do** benefit from auto-votes myself as well, but I truly believe that we would've been better off **without** auto-votes. I actually think that auto-votes reduced the value of almost everything.

I have seen many authors over time go from truly amazing content to content I could've done in my sleep, with my arms tied behind my back all due to auto-votes.. And that is somewhat heartbreaking to see for someone who has been putting in some real effort over the years. I value content, my own and others.

That being said though, with manual curation comes more engagement and one of the **best** parts about manual curation, according to me, is the fact that people can vote **several days** after you have published your article. Most people will probably continue to vote fast and on recent content, because that's how things have been for a long period of time.. With time though, I am sure we will see users curate old content as well, or should I say *older content* (a few days old).

So, even though the days of feeling overlooked, ignored or the days of zero engagement might not be entirely over, I am sure things will be different in the near future. Manual curation is definitely a step in the right direction. This will ultimately also reduce the time *"spent in vain"* for content creators meanwhile it will encourage and motivate users to continue to produce content as well.

That's how I want it to be. That is how I think it's supposed to be on **social** platforms.

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> *In case you missed it, make sure to check out [The Initiative Of 10
](https://leofinance.io/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450le/leofinace-the-initiative-of-10) by @taskmaster4450le. A good starting point for your upcoming comments.*

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