@heimindanger The strategy of the curation reward is good, but you get the same result. The most of it will go to the whales. They have the high upvote value and will earn the most of it. It is really complicated, but there must be a solution. We are dealing with many problems here.
Spammers! And yes you see them more active than the other users. We flag them and they loose their reputation, but whats the point! They are still here. My opinion is to remove every account that looses the reputation after checking it.
Scammers. They are stealing accounts everyday and nobody can do anything for that. I can tell you about some acoounts and you can see it yourself. They transfer money out of Steemit and it is visible in their wallet. We must have more security. Maybe block that account and transfer the money back to the owners, otherwise it is not gonna stop. I mean their doing their job and very comfortable here, while thousands of other users are pissed off.
I agree with you. It is correct to downvote posts from the trending page, but not all of them. If someone shares a stupid photo and gets 300$ for it thats wrong. But There are users who write good posts and you can see from the comments that many users follow them and interact with them, then nothing wrong with that.
We should try our best to help Newbies and give them a chance to be on the trending page. The problem is that the most people are not coming online and instead using services like "Steem Voter" to upvote other users. So nobody has time to discover what Minnows are sharing or read their posts. But as I said if we limit spammers and remove their accounts after they loose the reputation, things will look a bit better.