Hi @theycallmedan,
I would love if for a change also just content is upvoted by some of the big shots. With content I mean posts which deal about the real world out there. We are seeing so much content about Hive, out beloved chain, about how undervaluated it is, the challenges, the opportunities, the great future, but all this is not so relevant to non-Hivers or Newbies! A trending page with so many internal stuff that is hardly comprehendable to an outstander is potentially putting off rather.
We still have a massive problem that in general whales do give votes to their friends and mostly to each other. Of course the non-linear curation curve penalizes any different behavior.
Why not incentive people giving votes deliberately to posts with rewards in the non-optimal part of the reward curve? This could motivate newcomers.
Or even better, to change the curation curve to not damage small posters any longer.
Why? Becausee we clearly see many new accounts, but only a minority of those accounts post regularly.
By the way, with the constant requirement to post on Twitter you exclude users who don´t have or want a Twitter account. Maybe you want to lift that restriction once?
It's natural that people follow and upvote folks they like. Obviously they like them for reasons, and usually that's because they agree on various matters. However, the financial incentive of curation rewards creates inducement to profiteer, and this is sometimes impossible to separate from organic social activity.
This is why only availing investors of one mechanism to create ROI from their investment, and that mechanism being curation rewards, is a bad thing. It makes it necessary for rational stakeholders to degrade curation to manage their stake.
The irrational impact on new users and engagement makes the negative impact of curation rewards even more apparent. @edicted has outlined how investors could be availed savings accounts that more rationally and predictably enable them to manage their stake, while enabling curation to return to it's proper role in social discourse. This would also make the discouragement of new users and less staked authors and engagement in comments unnecessary.
Curation rewards degrade actual curation, and fixing this problem would strongly improve the ability of Hive to grow and reward investors IMHO.
Also, I don't use Twatter either, and can't participate in an of the initiatives @theycallmedan has undertaken because of that.