I want to see Valve step it up with Moderation not Curation.
My personal GOTY lists are always littered with deep end of the pool indies. Titles some might call trash or whatever. But hobby-grade / folk-art game development is what I'm into.
Curation would simply wipe these options off the table. And that would be a tragic loss, imo.
Now better Moderation I can get behind. Just the golden rules such has No Hate, No Criminal Sex, Broken games, etc. I mean Valve has these rules in place already, they just need to hit the eject button more quickly on those who try to slip through the cracks.
Shady devs looking for attention will always be there. I bet a million bucks that Rape game dev absolutely knew their game wouldn't get published on Steam. But they sure as hell got their name out there nonetheless for the mere fact of trying. Free advertising, with zero expectation of launching on Steam.
Valve needs to clamp down on this crap before it even reaches the consumer's eyeballs. Stricter moderation. Human moderation. Whatever.
But please stop with the Curation angle. That only creates gatekeepers to potentially quality content.