Thanks for thinking of this interesting question and sharing it with us! 😊

To be completely honest, I'd do a combination of automatic curation (for the users whose content I currently enjoy - and already automate), and curation for posts and comments on the community I recently created. I'd estimate approximately 50/50 for the former and latter for the purpose of fairness, and possibly shifting depending on how active the community becomes over time.

Additionally, I would want to somehow shift focus towards the curation of comments, because I've seen how commenting can be a very important component of engagement and growth in communities (in fact, the previous iteration of my community on a different platform thrived on comments - and the first post on the community here is already filled with nearly 100 comments!). Unfortunately, for the most part, comments tend to be grossly undervalued on Hive, and it's understandable based on the current reward system for curation. I think the comments are a very untapped resource for the growth of this platform.

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