Starting July 4th, 25% of the total payouts allocated to a top-level post will be split among all comments proportional to the votes the comments receive.
According to the code, it is actually 20%.
I wonder if whale bots will start playing games like 1% downvoting their spammy child comment and then 100% upvoting their grandchild comment in an attempt to keep a low profile while capturing a large share of the discussion rewards for threads that don't have too many highly upvoted comments.
That's a good point and/or strategy. Far easier than competing on the curation reward of top-level posts.
I think once the content has matured to within a certain percentage of the worlds holdings, equal power in the blockchain will be distributed as is. I think this is brilliant