Sorry, I see now that your question is getting at something different..
The short answer is downvoting. Whether stakeholders will actually start to clean things up after the right incentives are in place remains to be seen, but the idea behind the package of changes is that we should hopefully see more stakeholders upvoting good curated content and downvoting more content that is just siphoning rewards without adding value.
I wish I was an optimist, but humans are greedy and lazy, if they can automate their profits they will... an utopic vision of people doing stuff pro-bono isn't the way. There's no incentive to manual curate as opposed to lay back, auto curate and just collect the bigger profits.
There's no incentive to manual curate as opposed to lay back, auto curate and just collect the bigger profits.
Why would auto curating necessarily provide more profits? You only earn money from curating if others vote after you, so there are a lot of situations where putting your curation on auto pilot will not lead to maximum profit.
More profits as opposed to now - which people still sell votes for. Plus, you get the vote value on the vote selling, not only the curating, curating is going to be a good bonus. And people are lazy, I dont see them getting off the vote selling. I may be a pessimist... but I think we're going to enter vote-selling era