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RE: Change Curation Reward System On Steem Blockchain / DISCUSSION
I like the idea of a convergent linear author rewards curve but at the same time a linear curation rewards curve (which means I agree with you).
Yes, the idea of rewarding early voters was to incentivise people to seek for 'quality content' and upvote it early with the hope that many upvotes will follow. However, in reality most of the early upvotes are just automated, rewarding content of popular authors, independently of the quality of the content.
I was powering down here for certain reasons. That doesn't mean I wish STEEM and the remaining community bad. The opposite is the case, I wish you good luck! So even if I wrote it on the other chain, you may be interested to read my last two posts about exact this topic you are discussing here:
Hi @jaki01! Thank you for joining the discussion. It is highly appreciated!
It is something that bothers a lot of users as you can see the amount of feedback you got. And then you got the users that don't respond out of fear to say something stupid. I just think the numbers do not lie, the majority don't like the current curation model. Only the gamers or the ones that get the game of curation.
I saw an argument of someone that downvotes should regulate it and that downvotes are the solution, I think that that is absolutely the wrong approach because then you would make "punishment" the norm. More hate and more disappointment. We should work to reward good behavior, not solve by downvotes (punishment). That card is been played already and also doesn't work. (retaliation and lifetime downvote subscriptions included)
Your idea is for sure better as it is right now. And if more people like you ruled the scepter at the top, things might have changed for the better. Sadly they are the ones that designed it and profit the most of this model (short term thinking btw)
Nice to know you. Everyone has their own reasons to leave or to stay. I wish you all the best and hope to see you here again though :)