Amazing post man! Of course we have all a limited time at our disposition to actually read posts and comment on them. It's the same for me. However I try to read at least 5 posts a day and give a meaningful comment to them. This is my way to continue to learn new things every day. I also like to watch some videos on the blockchain. You are right that we tend to follow the authors that we like and I believe it's a good idea to check out new authors as well from time to time.
Regarding the linear reward curve, I'm a big fan of it. When you don't have to worry about when you drop your votes, it gives a totally different meaning to curation and values it much more. That is one of the reasons that I started to post much more on leofinance because I get valuable comments from people who actually read my posts. Their upvotes being worth the same whether they give them 5 minutes after publication or 3 days after that. In the end I believe that upvotes are great to have but what motivates people to actually write posts are the comments that they get...
This is 100% percent true for me and I think for a lot of others as well. I love being hit be the big curation trails just as much as everybody else, but posting an article and getting a dozen replies, each commenting on a different aspect of what I've written, that's what really motivates me!
When I started to publish through LeoFinance, the LEO I got was tiny in comparison to my Hive rewards and the rewards I've gotten on Publish0x. But the engagement was a completely different beast. Before LeoFinance, often times the only comment I got was from HiveBuzz...
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