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RE: Fixing Curation: Community Discussion
I don't know much about what the current rewards are like (I'm still learning all this) but wouldn't it be a better idea to do a 50/50 split, so that authors are still getting paid appropriately for their work? I feel like this might discourage authors from creating content. I do like the idea of making curation rewards better, so that upvoting is more profitable for the voter.
We had a 50/50 split before vote selling became an issue. The problem is now we are essentially competing against ourselves to make vote selling the less profitable option and 50/50 split isn't going to do that. 50% of rewards split among all curators is less than whales and other top curators can make from selling votes/renting SP.
I see! Thanks for explaining it to the noob :) I agree, vote selling is a huge problem and if we changed the profitability of voting, we would see positive change in the community
ok i didnt know that either. makes more sense. but then it makes less likely people would post too. i barely get $1 on a post without some type of bot. what we might see is just a lot of people going for curie awards on people who can make high earning posts, and less output from people who earn pennies.
Perhaps this is because people don't vote and curate like they used to anymore. When it becomes more profitable to vote for others than it is to pinch your own pennies, people will be looking for stuff to vote for because that's how you make money now. If your posts can't compete with top level posts you have the option to become a great curator and earn money that way. As of now, most of the wealth is for sell, fix that problem and see what happens is my outlook.
yes agree that needs to be addressed. i would also like to see the number of scam contests killed off, and if they werent making so much on awards upvotes this might address that.