I see the expansion of automatic curation pools or guilds being formed for Steemit curation. It is a practice where people lend their STEEM power (private posting key) to guilds that join them together and upvote content.
This could be a viable business model. Think about it, if you set up automatic pools/guilds for this, then you can both make money, both help newbies earn money automatically, also help people earn a passive income, and also help smaller authors get noticed by sending a large wave of votes towards them.
For example:
- Jonny has 50,000 SP, and he wants to earn passive income and also help Steemit authors/curators
- He sets up a guild where people send him his private posting keys
- The different curators specify what kind of people they want to upvote, to keep their voting sovereignty, and the rules how they want Jonny to upvote on their behalf
- Jonny matches similar interest people who would like to upvote similar topic articles, so that this mechanism won't be used for controlling people's opinions
- Jonny front-runs his clients, and votes first (as a fee for his services, he should earn the most money from it), then he votes with his client's private keys who would have similar interest in that article
- The article author is happy because he got a lot of votes
- Jonny and his clients are also happy because they helped interesting articles to be noticed, and also are earning a nice passive income from curation.
I guess projects like these are doing this:
But we need more! Maximize efficiency, let's make some passive income this way!
Upvote, ReSteem & 
