Who are the top curators in Hive community? How limited or expanded their curation engagement is? Answering in Quora

WHAT IS CONTENT CURATION ON HIVE.

Curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest, usually with the intention of adding value select, organize, and look after the items in a collection or exhibition.To every content platform, there is a mechanism that ensures that content are sorted based on relevance. On hive the same can be said to exist and this is ensured by the members of the platform as it is the same for every other content platform. On hive, there is a little twist to the mechanism. Curation is directly based on stake of each member. Each member has the chance to acquire and stake hive tokens which gives them a major share in choosing which content is most relevant on the platform.

Who are the top curators in Hive community? How limited or expanded their curation engagement is?
This article is to analyse the curation patterns of the top staked curators of the platform and the diversity of their curation. The relevance of the above question cannot be underlooked as it allows content worth reading to be easily sorted and ranked on the trending page. Below is the list of the top 20 content curators of hive, their staked token, the amount of hive earned and account activity in the Month of May.

Disclaimer: All statistical values are approximations not the exact values as the blockchain activity is ever ongoing.

Curation Leaderboard for 2020-05

Rank	Name of Curator	Curator's Stake	Amount Earned	No. Of Unique Authors	Votes Count
1	appreciator	188,613.120 HP	29,922.519 HP	536	1105
2	rocky1	91,621.586 HP	10,562.185 HP	164	515
3	upmewhale	91,231.680 HP	10,532.092 HP	308	1000
4	blocktrades	5,278,428.451 HP	7,989.482 HP	362	724
5	theycallmedan	1,437,442.924 HP	7,252.706 HP	327	567
6	bdvoter	48,881.956 HP	6,626.913 HP	288	548
7	tipu	57,483.154 HP	5,661.527 HP	795	1813
8	darthknight	2,594,176.776 HP	5,511.608 HP	109	189
9	buildawhale	39,763.608 HP	4,956.018 HP	162	1075
10	curangel	33,116.168 HP	c4,891.511 HP	727	1036
11	ocdb	45,645.314 HP	4,400.616 HP	322	465
12	trafalgar	985,513.542 HP	3,734.471HP	97	131
13	threespeak	56,036.904 HP	3,203.141 HP	201	386
14	payroll	877,865.352 HP	3,162.649 HP	2775	5523
15	innerhive	14,594.713 HP	3,011.937 HP	355	470
16	likwid	876,454.050 HP	2,885.972 HP	160	436
17	therealwolf	320,233.302 HP	2,793.430 HP	846	1316
18	kpine	17,923.701 HP	2,790.852 HP	807	1571
19	tribesteemu	44,805.344 HP	2,709.067 HP	127	399
20	Appreciator	555,434.066 HP	2,705.015 HP	163	1032

From the above, one can say that the effectiveness on curation rewards depends on the efficacy of the curator to identify promising articles.
NB: All statistical data are obtained from Hive-db.com which is the database for all account activities ongoing on hive. Statistical inference were imported into excel and analysed using graphs below.

Number of Unique Authors Curated by the Top Curators

The above data when analysed by the number of votes casted by each curator to unique authors, one will realise that @payroll has the most diversity. His votes are spread to as many as 2775 unique authors giving different authors the chance to be seen in the trending pages. @therealwolf comes second with 846 unique authors voted on in the month of May.

Number of Votes Distributed by the Top 20 Curators.

The above data indicates @payroll casted most votes in May at the time of this analysis with a staggering 5523 on 2775 unique accounts followed by @tipu who casted 1813 to 795 unique accounts.
Account activity on the 20 top curators varies marginally from each other.

With this data set, one can conclude that with about 3460 active users and top 20 curators of which the most diversified in terms of votes giving distributes 5523 votes to 2775 different users in a month, there is a chance for a newbie to be discovered. Hence the reward pool is not much skewed. Most of the top 20 curators distributes their votes to many unique users who have proven to write quality content.

For more information, move to hive.blog or peakd.com and experience the curators for yourself. Do you know what? They say experience is the best teacher. All statistical data was obtained from https://hive-db.com/labs/curation?grouping=monthly