I agree and disagree. Curation rewards for these authors is already way down. They won't continue to get the support from bots and other consistent voters they've been getting.
But I still think they will continue to be on trending, because they actually have readers and followers who like them and vote for them. All these curator bot operators aren't stupid, they continued to support these authors because the trailing votes (from readers) continued to come in and pump up the curation rewards. That won't change just because the curation rewards for the bot operators go away.
My next prediciton is that people will continue to whine and bitch about the same generally- talented authors (including yourself btw) succeeding because, well, that's how people are.
I also agree with @cryptogee that much of the author-list voting is not all curation-rewards motivated. 100% of the authors I consistently support are authors that I believe bring content to the site that adds value. Curation rewards are a bonus on top of that, but as he said, it wouldn't make sense of me to vote for something I believe to be harmful to the platform just for rewards
Hello @smooth That all makes perfect sense. Thanks for your post
Where there is quality, up-votes will come. I think that is point well worth making, especially from yourself and many other users trawling through 000's of posts per day. It's will be interesting to see the rate of organic change we see in Author Rewards.
There are certainly going to be new users coming along who will 'redesign the wheel' (so to speak) on Quality Content on Steemit. This will be the ultimate test of how fair the Curation Rewards are. NOT someone coming along attempting to 'copy' successful authors...
Hi @smooth - I'm curious your thoughts on this (if you have time) :)
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