Thanks for including my poem. I am so happy that it was well received and helps to spread the message of what Curie brings to the platform. Without Curie encouraging + rewarding quality content we would have a very different steemit, dominated by:

> Plagiarised, copy/paste
waste of space posts
flying about, and shite
reaching the heights
through bought votes.<br>

Sorry to quote myself, pretentious I know 😉 but I honestly feel this way. At this time, with delegating to bidbots bringing higher rewards than manual curating, we have a steemit elite who, mainly, only spread votes around through trailing accounts, or worse, just delegate to the bots for profit. Curie, and other curation guilds, are literally keeping the wolf from the door in respect to what I was talking about above. Something needs to change in regards to the reward system, and it all comes down to bidbots! Sure, if the bots were removed their would still be circles of people upvoting each other, but at least in that instance those people have actually engaged/read each others blogs to get to the point where they are supporting each other. It's a little more complicated than that with the autovote mechanism but I think that banning or tackling bidbots at a base code level is the only way to make steemit blogging platform that truly reflects a proposition of value based on quality content rather than simply profit.<br>

In the meantime, we all do what we can to redress the balance, curie is at the forefront of this and I am proud to be a part of that. Thanks again for including me in the weekly author showcase, sorry I let the spirit of the rant take over my soul 😅