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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.