RE: Why I Advise Against Linear Reward by blocktrades

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· @blocktrades ·
It's definitely an extreme case, and not one  to explore right now, IMO, but it has been proposed before as an alternative to the current system and it "could" make sense. 

In such a system, the blockchain pays rewards to good curators (i.e. investors) and authors only benefit indirectly (via recognition, advertising, etc). 

It's not as crazy as it might sound at first: plenty of people write all the time now without expecting direct monetary rewards from what they write.

All that aside, I'm definitely not in favor of trying something like that on Steem.
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@teamsteem · (edited)
I'm failing to see how the system can work without some sort of superlinear. (in reward to post reward as opposed to curation reward). Now, Steem is far from simple system and it's hard to foresee all possibilities. 

Also, I didn't realize 100% curation shouldn't be ruled out outright so thanks for enlarging my horizons in that regard.
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@blocktrades ·
There is superlinearity in curation rewards now, it's just not based on stake.  Essentially, the superlinearity is based off being the first to spot good content before others find it and vote on it. The early voters get more than the later voters. The idea is that this will encourage a curator to find the content that other people will vote on. 

But this is often misunderstood right now: many voters think they get more for voting for a post that already has a lot of votes on it, when such votes actually get much less of the overall curation reward. 

Most importantly, under 25% rewards split among all curators versus 75% going to the one author, this superlinearity is pretty much moot because the rewards are just so small relative to author rewards that the economics are totally skewed to self-voting. 

The most important thing to do now is to change this percentage to allow for meaningful curation rewards. Then we can consider tinkering without how those curation rewards are apportioned after they become numbers that matter.
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@teamsteem ·
But even under 50% curation or even 75% curation wouldn't the big whale simply look to vote for themselves? Wouldn't exclusive self upvote be the surest strategy for best ROI for most of the large whales?
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