>Comment Payout independent of Discussion

It's kinda funny because this feature is in direct contradiction with having a seperate pool for comments.

Basically what this feature does is that it standardize all type of posts which is exactly what we need but the comment pool does the exact opposite.  We need all posts treated the same whether they are blogs, comments, twitts,etc...because steem the blockchain will be used by many different sites, many of which won't have the same blog/comment structure that steemit.com has.

Like I said below we need to think of steem as the underlying blockchain that could power every website in the world, not simply as steemit.com.

>On the subject of the reverse auction, it was implemented to give people a chance to front-run bot voting

I think one thing that could be done to give manual curators advantage over bots is to let people chose how much curation they want to give to curators. The same way people can chose to power up 100% or 50%, users would have the ability to put a certain percentage for curation reward. This would change the whole dynamic because bots won't be able to know what this percentage is in advance.

I agree with you regarding what should be and should not be in hardfork 17.  I think that flattening/removing the curve is a no brainer and should be in hardfork 17 too. And increasing curation reward is also logic to me, so i wouldn't mind to have it in hardfork 17.

>-Single [7-day] Payout Period

This feature is also premature . We don't know yet which sites will be using steem, maybe some sites will want their users to be paid quickly, imagine a concept where users have to reinvest the money they have earned, this type of site would require a quick payout, there is so many use case we havn't even thought of yet, the goal should be to make steem the most polyvalent and simple.

edit: steem power delegation sounds ok to me for hardfork 17 actually. It may add some complexity but i see a lot of interesting stuff and experiment that could come from this feature. The primary one is that whales could delegate their power to individual curators, so its an alternative and a superior solution to curation guilds which are more centralized Also a market vest/steem would be possible with this feature.