It had been anticipated that's why it was proposed it would be without curation rewards. I would love to see a reward pool for comments only, no curation rewards, because that would create a lot of reason for non bloggers to be here, and they will attract real investors.
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You may be right that this would work, and I'm aware it was originally proposed without curation rewards. My concern about having no curation rewards from an incentive point of view is that now bad actors would be incentivized to upvote comments from their sockpuppets because they no longer can profit from curation rewards aspect (which normally acts as a potential magnifier on their reward if they vote for stuff other people like).
Personally I don't think curation ever discouraged users from using their vote to upvote themselves. It's one of the perks of having steem power, and we already see it frequently used.
It was proposed without curation rewards, but that changed, and if HF17 went live today it would have had curation rewards:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/774#issuecomment-282416981
Yeah, I'm actually writing up a post now on why we should support it without curation rewards. Seemed totally logical to me before steemit inc even made it clear they would be removing the curation rewards.
A whole new group of people might not like that idea because it's a 38% cut to curation rewards as a whole.
The whole thing is such a sticky situation!
The issue is not "how should we design this feature", but "now that this feature has been modeled, designed, implemented, and tested, should we block its release"?
If there is abuse of the new model, we can mitigate that in turn in the future, either via downvote bots, social action, or modifying incentives/disincentives in a future hardfork.