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Only people with a meaningful stake can really affect the curation of posts. All those new users aren't going to be buying Hive Power on the day they join, so if there really was a huge surge in the number of active users, it would take time for there to be an equivalent increase in the number of curators with stake.

OK ... now it is clearing up ... they have to get here, get resources (either through buying Hive Power or being delegated), figure out how everything works, and then start posting and voting. That would indeed take some time.