Yes the most definitely was the case. I had it pulled up and had responded quickly and then when replying realized your comment was longer and wanted to ensure I read it first before continuing. I also am a read over and editor 🙂
If I am upvoting my own comment with high SP or I am a bid bot owner, do I not still get the Lion's share of curation?
For those self voting they already get 100% (both author and curator parts of their vote) so nothing changes for them in that aspect. That’s why the downvote pool is being included, as while you can give someone an incentive to curate with potential profit, if they make more just spamming and upvoting themselves then why would they do anything else? So self voters would only be discouraged by individuals actively using the downvotes.
As far as the ranking, rep and changing to more of a engaged platform by rewarding those who do so, I most definitely agree but don’t think the system you described can be acquired on a DPOS system as a whole.
This could most definitely be done with communities though that have their own “rewards” system and SMTs or tokens and I believe we will see that soon.
I believe this currently would even be possible through something like Scottbot and a Steem Engine token. It just has to be designed and made.
I do believe that we do need to better reward positive contributions to the chain and that’s why I am constantly spouting about “reward the behavior you want to see!” As I think if the behavior you described was what was rewarded, more and more would do it. Currently, we reward a lot of shit, so we get more shit 😕
Those that work the system do seem to get the bulk of the reward. That is so true. Appreciate your response and time. Thank you:)