Until they remove the UPVOTE from the main listing the TRUE curation will not happen. It makes no sense what so ever having those buttons there, it only incentivizes the Upvote without reading or even without viewing the post/article.
I wrote about this 4 weeks ago: Proposal: For quality content sake - REMOVAL of all UpVote buttons on the listing pages
I would still give a reward for the Newsflow votes.
The reason is simple: steemit blogging exists to supprt the STEEM currency.
Therefore, liquidity has to be present.
Being too harsh and removing the newsfeed upvote may pose a problem in terms of liquidity. My proposal is therefore to limit it.
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