Great analysis @paulag, was really looking forward to the day that your analysis would be published to get your expert input on the state of DSound curation. Thank you so much for sharing this data!

Relating to the curation on DSound, I would say that almost all of it is manual but bot assisted, meaning that a pool of 3 curators and myself go through the posts in various ways and every time a sound clicks, we investigate the account, check for consistency, presence in other platforms, copyright violations, profile credibility (even contact the creator via other platforms to check it), and only then, we add that author to be voted automatically. Also there are a few other votes that are selected from the posts that score more feedback between the community. Each author only may get a auto vote once a day to avoid abuse and the curators frequently check auto votes for continued consistency as well.

This has been, by far, the strongest effort of last month of DSound. Having a delegation is great, but to make great use of it is a completely different thing! Since day one my top priority has been to put the delegation to work in favor of DSound community and to build a strong and creative mindset around it, instead of building up greed based posting like in many others. By having a music label myself, I know how to filter content in some effective ways, but it has been much more difficult that I sincerely expected... A lot of copycats and people just recording junk to try to make an extra buck...

It has been a huge effort but I think we made quite a great job so far, mainly because every time I go through the trending or hot on original songs, for instance, I just get such a great set of insanely great quality songs! :)

I am really proud of this achievement of my curation team!

And another thing that makes me proud related to the curation effort is the community we built along the way with all the artists, musicians, song writers or podcasters on our Discord server, as I published on my last post.

Last month was a month to settle these efforts in solid ground, and this month my focus is in few important features and growth behind Steemit community! DSound has the capacity to bring a huge amount of sound creators in general, between music and other types of sound like podcasts and I will be spreading the word...

BTW, I think that the table of engagement by comments should be wrong, because the numbers are exactly the same as the previous one for posters...

Thanks a lot once more for your expert analysis and I am working to get it to grow substantially so that your next one will make us proud once more! :)