When you want a new user to give 1c for a first vote, that's 6$ a month - twice of what the account is worth right now. If that were possible, I'd create a lot of small accounts and let them post spam & vote for each other all the time.

That is not the math that I have witnessed. Please explain in detail how many users it would take.

The only vote have seen that gave a post 1cent was from a user with 8,000 steam power. This means that it would take 16,000 steam power for that user to get 1/2 the rewards, or 1 cent. It would take the votes of hundreds of normal users to give that user anything. I have yet to see even 1 cent come from users without thousands of dollars invested.

This is still completely ignoring the fact that bots will be allowed to steal most of the curation rewards, because it was just decided that nothing will be done to protect people from them (by the person who wanted to scrap the whole reward system because of them last week).