Seems like curation works perfectly ;-)

I didn't vote for james' post because the change he proposed is only doable with major changes to steem. That's not something to be done in a couple of days, and the problem doesn't show to be so big to dedicate a huge amount of time for it. There's more important things to work on.

Dan's post lines out that they actually thought about what the problem really is, and what can be done to improve the distribution between posts. A set of small changes, which will smooth out some of the current edges.