It would be transacted in STEEM - SBD is used in promotion, yes, and it is clear why, but with the magic of programming and a few cycles this can be done in STEEM (*whispers .. I think we can do without SBD entirely, but that's already been discussed earlier & elsewhere).
So, you would get 1/2 back ... correct me if I am wrong.
What would happen to the other half?
Hi Tim,
Sorry I think there is some confusion. If the suggestion were implemented, and I realize I am thinking of this mostly from the perspective of our immediate need, if we were able to add STEEM directly to the post reward, with a 50% SP / 50% SBD & STEEM Author Reward, we would have 50% to distribute to our participants. At the same time we are increasing curation rewards ..so in fact less than half what we put in would come back to us in the form of STEEMPower.
The wider application used by most people, would be to increase curation rewards, in hopes that this would 'promote' the post - inbthis case more than half would come back to the author for certain, but there is a chance that more than 100% is returned depending on how much they put in and how well received is the post.
If anyone could increase any post's reward directly, well that would be the ultimate way to support and promote the work of others in one fell swoop. :)
Perhaps we are looking at it too innocently ..not seeing the potential for abuse. Limits I am sure can be set to prevent such things ... but if someone wanted to drop 100 000 STEEM on their own post ..the curators would benefit greatly, no? Or does it completely f up the economy?
If they do it early on in the post, then the curation rewards go to the author.
It is a really cool idea, but unfortunately the ways it opens up the system for abuse are going to be the challenge.
SP?
If you add $1,000 to the post and you get $500 of it as STEEM and $500 of it as SP - you are still getting your money back. I suppose it is forcing users to power up (which could end up with a loss) but it is still a way for a user to game the system.