I did some math the other week, at their current APR they are leaving ~78K/yr on the table, and bdvoter is scooping it up.
But it's not black and white, the 24 hour window is difficult without being dedicated 8-16 hours/day watching the chain. This has a direct cost as well.
Not sure how their curation is set up exactly, all I know is they leave gifs with this account when they upvote the posts (I think): https://peakd.com/@steemmonsters/comments
but since many of them land late it leaves room for others to predict which posts are going to get upvoted. Who knows if those predictions are only a guessing game but metrics show that they're pretty good at it to the point of taking 50% of the curation rewards of one of our biggest projects in the ecosystem.
Solution is to simply have more curators actively curate content as it's coming out rather than try and play catch-up later. Voting on posts purposely late also doesn't make a lot of sense since they'd want good SPL posts to get hot/trending attention to bring new users to the game.
The votes seem to land as the comment is placed so I'm guessing the curators have posting authority to cast the votes. If other curation projects can easily get to most posts before the 24h window I don't see why they can't.
Same fate here too. So this is costing SPL even more returns I'm sure they could use for various things...
wouldn't the easy way of fixing this is to make no curve and just that voting on it within 7 days nets the same no matter what? Nothing to game in that case right? I could be totally wrong though I don't understand the whole curve very well.
This would open up other issues and make it more difficult to fight abuse. Also, steemmonsters can easily fix it on their own in 2 minutes.