Wise words from @smooth

smooth65 · 21 hours ago
Right now we have bots that are powering down millions of vests a week and regaining the entire balance powered down simply by curating

I've seen this claim repeatedly made. It appears false. My power down rate is currently 20K/week. I'm making 3K/week with a combination of light botting and manual curation. @berniesanders is making 4K/week. @wang is apparently the most successful bot relative to SP and is making 2K/week while powering down 4K/week.

Seems there should be snopes page on this :)

More importantly though, voting for curation rewards is a competitive activity. There is always someone who is going to be the best at it. Looking at that one individual during one particular time window is not a good way to assess the effect of the mechanism across the overall system. This is no difference from balance in games. There might be a few excellent players with very high K/D ratios (imperfections of that metric noted), but that fact alone does not imply the game is unbalanced at all.

Also - writing is harder than curation, why should it be an equal split?

The rewards for reading are split among potentially hundreds or thousands of voters.

Makes sense to me.

Full post can be found here:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@calaber24p/revamping-curation-is-the-way-to-increase-steem-power-demand