I  think that automating curation would help the project a lot.  Growing the community is not easy and it is obvious that with the volume we have now it is very difficult to keep up the manual curation work in the way that it could be done with a smaller group of people.

I see that the risk is that post quality drops and people just try to post anything to try to get their upvote rewards on whatever they publish.  This is where the manual curation really helps.  I think we need to couple any automated curation with ideas on how to promote the really good content.  I know everyone wants to see rewards for their posts but above the rewards, the sense of community - in my view - is even more important.  What I have always loved about PH is the community feel - the curation rewards are just a nice side benefit.

The emergency fund is just a brilliant idea.  I love it.  Supporting the community where needed - just a fantastic idea and to have Jose involved is just excellent!

Thanks as always for the great effort you put into this community.