Please don't implement EIP. The rewards curve is one of the worst offenders. It will force users to behave irrationally if they want to have any impact and will punish users who are behaving like the average user would.

I like to upvote the posts that I enjoy. The things I enjoy (and the things most people enjoy, deeply, truly) tend to be niche works. But under this system, everyone loses if the post doesn't reach 16 steem.

I have never voted on a post that reached 16 steem. The only posts I've seen reach 16 steem were either curie-ed (yay) or botted (boo). It will definitely be more of the latter than the former. Is that the behavior you wish to encourage? Is that what you think will draw more users to the chain?

I know you want people to buy more steem and power it up to have more impact, but this change will absolutely make it more difficult for steem to get to the point where LOTS of people use steem. It will remain a small village and possibly get smaller with this change because small accounts (which is most of them and will always be most of them because that's how sizes work) will have less hope of making an impact.

You're solving a problem that is only a problem for whales. But you don't want more whales, really. You want more minnows and dolphins. And even plankton. You want users. Facebook is valuable because it has EVERYBODY. Steem could be that, but not if it's doing things like this.