"If 2 is true, then they will be making less under the new system, so there is no issue."
Less of an issue.
This entire comment chain is exemplary of the problem that variably valuing votes, and rewards for both creators and curators, by timing and etc., introduces - IMHO unnecessarily.
Want curation to actually better reward content based on the value of the content? Get rid of all the timing and games that vary the value of votes on content.
Deal with bots separately. SOC (SMTs, oracles, and communities) will make that possible. Gamifying curation simply incentivizes playing games, rather than rewarding good content rationally.
I hope to see this realized at some time. I expect SOC will make it obviously a necessary solution to many that presently don't understand how gamifying curation degrades curation quality.
Thanks for clarifying this complexity as you have. I hope we can simplify curation significantly soon, as doing so will make good content - and the people that make it - more valuable than knowing how to manipulate the rewards system.
There is talk of doing this, but no consensus yet.
Curious how
I am happy to hear that folks you listen to are discussing simplifying curation.
As to how SOC can deal with bots, in his talk in Korea @ned (whom I believe would not make idle speculations on the matter) stated that oracles are able to ascertain whether an account is A) a human person, and B) even a unique user. Communities intent on being bot free can rely on such oracles to exclude bots and socks.
The actual detection of bots is complex, and I don't pretend to grasp the details. If @ned did not misspeak (and I did not misunderstand), and can be relied on, then oracles make it possible for communities to exclude bots.
Yes, Oracles (used with SMTs) will be one way of dealing with this problem. I am in support of those changes.
There is coming a fruit of diligent nurturing of principle in action that I greatly anticipate. Good people will join their ilk in doing good.
Nothing will more encourage those whose actions heretofore have neglected beneficence to undertake it, and I can scarcely comprehend the potential of such mutual action to effect felicitous society.
Thanks for your personal dedication and work to that end.