Yeah but if you are in the utility camp, there's no point in having anything allocated to rewards at all.

The camp I'm in is about first seeing if we can get rewards to be better allocated by changing the incentives, and barring that, jumping on the utility bandwagon and banishing rewards in its current form.

And someone already said it, but the content camp is what makes this platform unique, so it doesn't make sense not to try to improve it. We tweaked it two years ago, let it sit, and never re-evaluated the system until now.

I suppose that's not entirely fair, because some in the utility camp likes the way that you control exactly the proportion of the rewards pool that corresponds to your stake. In that case it makes sense to abolish downvotes and let it sit like that forever. I don't have much faith in that particular system though. May as well make that SPS driven. Anyway I'm just rambling now, maybe some of these ideas make sense, maybe not.