RE: A first thought about improving curation
¿Avoid trying to game the system? LoL
Well, for me that would be very simple.
As for genuinely improving 'curation' rewards. What I would really like to know is to see what would happen if:
1.- There was no way to upvote a post unless you click on the title and open it fully on your browser.
2.- There was no way to upvote a post with less than 100% of your VP. (Death to the slider)
3.- There was no way to upvote a post from outside the platform in which it was originally created. PERIOD!!
As for the point 3. I mean: Posts created on steemit.com can only be upvoted within steemit.com platform. Busy within Busy. dTube within dTube, dLive within dLive, etc. And so all the rest: Steempeak, Steemitstage, Steepshot, Utopian.io, Steemhunt, KnackSteem, Partiko, DSound, dMania, Zappl and whatevah content CREATION platform exist out there. ¿Capisci?
¿Are we here on a Social Network or not?
So, I suppose that in order to be called CURATORS we would need to be READERS in first place. ¡AUTHENTIC READERS! Entities that can read and know how to read. ¿WTF? Therefore it should be eliminated, excommunicated and execrated the ability to vote to any automatism, AI, Bot or code crap unable to read, digest, evaluate and assess written content.
So basically you want something that is nothing at all like Steem. Perhaps you would find a group more conducive to your preferences at your local library.
If we are talking regards thinking about that the curation algorithm is being now broken. And truly encourage the discovering and rewarding of undervalued content as real curators.
Those are and certainly has been my own peculiar ideas for long time in relation to how recover the original, primal and primitive philosophy of how a HUMAN Social Network where content is rewarded monetarily among its members should work to fullfill the steem blockchain goals as it should. From the beginning and forever. };)
So, in the same way that you shyly propose continue crunching numbers, developing ineffective formulas and foster halfass algorithms that they won't contribute in anything to correct the problem from the root once and for all. Mine at least, looks a bit more definitive, striking, cogent and emphatic to experiment with and achieve the goal. Like within the steem blockchain as in any other digital place. Except my local library. Of course.