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RE: Why linear rewards in HF19 won't solve SteemIt's main problems
It's already a huge problem, even without 100s of millions of users. It's caused by curators not having incentive to find quality posts. And whales are even more problematic, they make money regardless of what they do (even by potentially adding low quality to the platform on a regular basis). The fact that all whales have 1000s of followers and some of them almost never post any content says enough about people slimeballing whales all day and the protocol allowing quantity over quality.
Yes, its impossible to look at every post, even briefly. And the curation thing, IDK... Whats quality and what isn't is a very subjective thing. Being too strikt will scare many people away and will take some of the fun factor of it all.
To the voting power thing... it might be worth concidering a equal power for all system, with a vote limit per day or something. The way it is now, is incredibly complicated. But I guess such a suggestion would meet a lot of resistance.
The quality of a post is almost entirely a matter of opinion of the people who are reading the post. Of course, it doesn't matter how high the quality of a post is if no one sees it because of the volume of posts on the feeds. I don't look at the trending or promoted post feeds, and I seldom look at the new feeds. It takes most of my time here just to look at the new posts from the people I'm following. That's pretty much the best I can do.
The system should reward curators to find great content that is undervalued, currently it doesn't.
The volume of posts is actually not bad at all, you can pretty much scan the NEW section all day and rarely not being able to keep up. Not that i scan NEW anymore, because it's quite pointless :)