RE: Curation Rewards and Voting Incentive
It is interesting how much you can earn as a whale off curation and what I have been trying to figure out is if that even entices most of the whales to interact with the platform as much as the minnows are. The biggest problem with Steemit right now is that the Whales aren't actually voting and engaging on a large scale like us minnows who are pushing hard. If you look on CatchAWhale.com the entire first page of whales have voting power of usually 99% or 100%. I'm constantly engaging and voting and my voting power is usually between 60% and 80%. I'm not saying the curation reward should be increased but I have a feeling the whales are too busy or uninterested in spending the time engaging with the community like those who are new to the platform. This will cause the attrition level of good new content creators to be pretty extreme. Good content goes unnoticed by the whales and then users just leave.
The steems that go out to rewards are the same each day! So even if all whales would not participate on curation that would just mean that the decision for who gets paid comes from dolphins and minnows !!!
Maybe it would be a nice experiment whales don't participate at all !!! Maybe we would have much better curation results !!!! (more high quality content on the trending page)
I agree we should try this for one week and see what he valuable post are when only Dolphins and minnows are curating. It would also speed redistribution.