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RE: Scalability, Content Quality and Centralization - An open discussion on an incentivized downvote system
Great article. in my post I threw a half idea out that curation and author allocation should be switched. total rewards all shown solely for the post (not individualized) and votes hidden. The bulk of the reward then going to comments upvoted. I agree it is good to expand and toss idea out, I like your proposal, I bristled a bit at seeing one whales vote essentially undo the communities opinion on it based only on that reason.
Thanks for the feedback, I left some of my thoughts as a reply on your post.
Giving a 25% portion of post rewards to comments as a handout was proposed for Steem v0.8.x but it was almost unanimously agreed by witnesses that it was a bad idea. It would have invited incredible amounts of no-value spam comments everywhere. Even without those incentives, a ton of bots showed up making generic comments in a ton of posts until people started countering them with downvotes.
I personally think if that change had happened it would have been a disaster for Steem(it). It would have allowed abusive/garbage bot accounts to scoop up a large amount of SP. Giving the bulk of rewards to comments is redundant and a handout. Comments can get upvotes already.