I think this issue will be a very difficult one to resolve. It takes quite a bit of time to curate manually, (which I prefer), How would the change effect curation from whales or very large stake holders? People seem adverse to vote trails and I fully understand the why of that, but with the amount of work needed to curate and to receive what an investor would consider a decent ROI , will it be balanced from their perspective? I don't think vote trails work, but with less curation will the large accounts go to auto voting via trails?
it is something for all of us to mull over and try to come up with solutions, but if the system is not really broken does it really need fixing? Is the current 50/50 system seen as broken by some people? Are the ones that perceive it as broken on one side of the fence that would provide them more?
I post and curate, and I see myself 100% neutral in the choice, I am also of a small enough account that I Can manually curate, even though I do blind vote on content I have not read or looked at but that is generally on People whom's content I have observed in the past and on people I have chosen to try and help give a boost to.
I have seen some post with lots of comments on the trending list, but when I look at a few of them especially on Hive side, not many of them have replies from the content creator. They just use Hive as another social, media dumping ground for their work from other sites, and I do not think they should receive the rewards some of them get, but that is my opinion and I choose not to vote on that style , (dumping ground), of post.