I am becoming increasingly demoralised that the good guys are losing this fight
I feel the same way. The system as it is right now with the overpriced SBD just asks to be abused since curation is heavily punished. It's far more profitable to just opvote yourself 100% or start a bid bot selling all your upvotes for more than they are worth compared to putting a lot of time and effort in making good content.
What worries me is that nothing has been mentioned about the broken curation by the devs in the latest updates.
Good luck fighting back!
Thanks. I have been banging on a bit about the curation for a while but it's all falling on deaf ears. All they have to do is split the curation reward 50% SP and 50% SBD just like author rewards and it will re-balance the playing field.