I think a lot of people (including you and me) are trying to think of a better system than the current one, but everything come up with so far has negative side effects as you already mentioned.
I like that you started a new discourse about it, which even Stinc picked up on. Maybe they can come up with a better system with fewer side effects.
The best I have come up with is:
- No 15min curation window, everyone gets 30% of the vote back as curation regardless of the vote timing (I don't think spam is that much of a problem), 70% for the author. This only works if you make self-voting impossible or return to the rewards pool.
- This incentivizes production of good content that people would actually like to see in trending and it encourages staking, but it also has lots of side effects.
And I don't think it would be able to kill bidbots (which is something I want as it hinders content discovery) Maybe you can think this through better than me...
Can you come up with something that will make bidbots disappear?
Maybe combine this with passive returns for "locked up" steempower for the investors that don't give a f.ck about content discovery.
I also had a thought experiment with linking ID documents to the account. Nobody is allowed to have more than 2 accounts that earn from curation and posting. You can create more accounts, but without being able to link them with ID they can only write without earning...
(Because linking to ID is the only way that I could come up with to cap the maximum earnings of whales... because they can always split their Steem to 100 different accounts)
Sorry for this long answer...
I think I did. Please see my reply to the OP below.
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