I think @svamiva's idea is really good, it will incentivize new authors to be upvoted because they can put a larger curation rewards and it will also force bots to actually check the post curation details before upvoting.
I also think that late upvoters are important and that the degree to which early curators earn should be more even.
Do you think you can discuss this with the dantheman, ned or the devs team, I really think @svamiva is onto something here? Also do you know if these changes can be made at the blockchain level or only interface level?
I wrote a post about this, hopefully I get input from the steemit devs.
https://steemit.com/curation/@snowflake/let-authors-decide-how-much-rewards-they-want-to-allocate-to-curators
Btw thanks for upvoting my latest posts :)