so to maximize curation rewards... we should upvote BEFORE we read the content then?!
That's a weird change and to me it honestly just looks like large stakeholders with their auto-voting want to make sure they can stay ahead of the organic curation?!?
That was exactly the first thing that came to mind. First it was the 50/50 curation, so we consider and think, well OK. Small accounts may be able to still do OK with increased curation if they get the timing right.
HF21: Hold my beer. I'll stop that too.
Yeah, I used to be a fan of the 50/50 model.
I thought it could be a good encouragement to spend time in the "new" section and look for gems, not like many whales would actually put any time into that, but they might have seen a reason to support or even organize such manual curation initiatives.
No, that would almost look too much like "proof-of-brain", so instead, let's just make sure auto-voting circle-jerks stay hip and give all the benefit to content indifferent subscription votes... YAY!
It gets more stupid with each change. Then they wonder why Steem makes new lows every day.