I’m sort of against authors who take 2 mins to make a crap post on sharetosteem taking from the reward pool 🤷🏻♀️ But then again it’s a shared pool.
Everyone who gives out an upvote is a curator.. so yes while authors may see a decrease on one side, they will actually gain when they curate as well. Most authors do both, don’t they?
I would say we have quite a few using Steem as passive income, some have actually invested their own money, and others have not. I think both can be bad if value is not returned in some way.
I do understand your concerns and the goal here was to open a dialogue so everyone could voice them.