I feel like I've had this conversation with you in the past? You've been in favor of the 50% curation. I still feel like curation is too easy to manipulate (bot voting, auto-voting curation trails, etc).
I would personally like to see an alternate method used to calculate curation rewards. Something more complex, like the percentage of votes you make toward a single author, or the percentage of votes you make on authors who you have followed for less than 7 days, or something more than simply clicking the "upvote" button.
Also, if you upvote content 1 minute after that content was posted, and the post is half as long as this one, there's no way the person read the post, so they aren't technically "curating", but they're simply trying to earn rewards from the post. So maybe include an algorithm that calculates the number of words in the article and the number of seconds a person spent reading it before they upvoted it? Sure, this could be "gamed" also, but at least it's an added layer of "defense".
I know you would, and so would I... however. Machine will never beat the human greed instinct.
We can keep writing complex algorithms to try and automate the prevention of abuse and human greed. However, artificial intelligence systems can only do so much.
This is a social media platform, with humans participating... At some point (especially now) we need to identify what is socially accepted and what isn't.
Steemit/steem is still in BETA mode. The added layers of defense are only added layers but not fully defensive. :)
For this particular topic discussion, the general point has been made. Let's work with what we have at the moment.
(Which means, let's all use human power to decide what is good and what's not, and upvote or flag accordingly)
I do appreciate your comment...
Quickly: To me, it's not necessarily trying to "beat" human greed, but to Deter. If someone has to spend a significant amount of effort up-front to create an algorithm to "beat the Steemit defense", there are going to be fewer occurrences, and they will be easier to identify and manage.
Anyway, I'll leave this discussion for another post.
Agreed!