RE: Allow Authors To Determine Curation Split & Timing (Edit 30 Minute Delay)
The dog piling to me is a disappointing side effect of the current curation system... of course we all want to make some income here, but i would like to believe people want to actually listen to the songs I wanna share or the thoughts I have to express than just... lets click on this dude, this is the way i get some money...
Its like i would like both, but not in the order they are happening... I started to not upvote content unless I read and engage, because I'm like this person who I appreciate in one way or another put his work into this post. I owe him the respect to read him, its not about my curation money... if i get curation money cuz some whale comes in here for example and blesses Lexi with a super vote... Fantastic! thats great for Lexi, cuz his posts deserve to be succesful and great for me because I was "lucky" key operational word there to have found the post early.
I may be a little to idealistic and half way rambling here, but hey... its just my two .02 steems
I definitely agree with everything you've said here, philosophically.
However, this is ultimately an amoral blockchain protocol where code is law. Everything else is what we culturally add on top as the community. As long as that is true, a great many users, I daresay the majority, will be motivated by strict game theory and will post-hoc-rationalize what is needed to get as close to that as possible.
I see this change as a tool to help those who agree with you (us) philosophically have another option for competing for views/votes with the big guys, as they can choose to share more.