It does make a little sense the way things stand now. Newcomers need to create in order to earn the power to curate. Curators need to work more to find new creators to curate. I'm not placing myself on a pedestal here. I need to work more, too. However, I do focus my efforts on curating a number of posts from small-time players and rarely upvote anyone big except for @papa-pepper.

No amount of algorithm shuffling can change people. We need to set an example for the minnows by curating, commenting, and engaging. We need to proactively hunt the spammers and plagiarists, too. This matters far more than shuffling the reward pool to further cut off minnows from posting rewards they already struggle to earn as it is.