My initial thoughts are that this would be much better done through a community. As opposed to tinkering with Hive's base-layer tokenomics
I agree. As I mentioned to another commenter, I use Hive as an umbrella for other dapps--leofinance, ecenecy, etc.
Just a group of like-minded Hivers who want to curate comments in preference to posts. Who could then work together to provide contests, curation trails, and other incentives.
I understand this is an open-source project and participation is volunteer, but it will take more than people's goodwill to move the dapps further. They need to be run like a business by being efficient and profitable.
I would be really interested to know the thoughts of @macchiata on this. Because she paid me the astonishing sum of 5 Hive for commenting about productivity tools. That is by far the biggest reward I've got for writing on Hive. Yet it was also one of my most enjoyable pieces because I really felt I was part of something bigger than my own ramblings
I am open to other people's viewpoints. I will also check out the initiative you mentioned. Thanks for stopping by.