So many bloggers will be totally pisst, changing to 50% Curation would mean that authors get less money per article.

A very drastic and unnecessary move. I remember those days, and we did not have any quality articles. With few exceptions, it was for the most part "circle jerking" going on back then.

We want the people to thrive here, not so fun watching you $8 post, knowing you only going to get $4.

Let's forget about going back and instead speed up these account creation. That system works way too slow, rather fix that because we do want people to come here.