To improve hive experience I wouldn't show the rewards people earn. And make the hierarchy of the posts to show depend of the quantity of votes it gets, not the amount of hive power it gets. If we depend on showing quality content in the first page from large stakeholders it is bad, for now and for the future. The key of a social media is all the people inside it. I see voting a post with a large hive power as a way of gratitude (a plus other social media doesn't have), not a way to control what posts we show first.
👉Roadmap of a newcomer:
After create a new account and sign in(this part has been optimized pretty much)
You enter to hive. What you first see is how much money people in the front page earn (this content may or may not be quality content, it all depends on the view of the large stakeholder that has upvoted, not the large community behind hive)
Then you may comment on these posts.
You may decide later to create a post yourself (good experience there, from my point of view, has improved a lot).
You upload it and some hours later you see that you have received 0.50$🤑 of hive. What our brain tells us immediately after is that we are losing😥, because in the first page people are earning 50$ with some few lines. Those 0.50$ should be something awesome😍 to the newcomer that comes from the social media that you cannot get money and you see ads.
Also I think this can solve the problem with curation.
Let me explain. Imagine if during the first week you cannot see who voted and with how much hivepower (obviously this should take effect at the level of blockchain to work), only how much votes it gets. Then curation would be another game, we would really need to look for other content creators, for new and quality content that we could show in the first page. People could make real money curating, as getting to the first page would get a lot of eye balls. It would be awesome if the content creator could see the rewards he/she gets but the "content watchers" couldn't.
👉Conclusion: You want to make content of a social media controlled by money or by the community?
RE: VOTE ACOUNT SORTING ALGORITHMS
On blockchain you can create hundreds of accounts and automate them to vote. So that makes vote count algorithms hard to do.
Then we need some way to detect those accounts that are bots. Otherwise we'll be like this forever... Social media content cannot be controlled by money, that is a must I believe. We cannot make this place more anxious for content creators than Youtube or Instagram or whatever out there.
I think we need to work on the reputation system.
Imagine if companies could pay to get views on youtube or instagram... what do you think would happen?
We are making hive a social media of marketing, you pay you get publicity. Or otherwise you make happy the large stakeholders for them to upvote you...