As I rarely check the trending page I only discovered your post thanks to being name spammed by steemship. Ironically I think he was complaining about this post, but to be honest, it is one of the best reads, for both post and comments that I have seen in some time. The discussion here on the curation game is one that I am particularly interested in. And I too believe that will help create more value for Steem. Which benefits us all. I have made a couple of Curation based posts over the last month in an effort to both highlight my achievements in that field, but to also help users understand the process a bit better. Even if having more successful curators was to hurt my own curation efforts it will help Steem, and I think that's the priority for long term stability.
I'm still trying to digest the technically aspects of the suggestions here, so I wont give specific opinions, except to say a change that helps curators (preferably manual) is a change that helps Steem.
Anyway, I have a lot more comments to read through. This post is going to keep me busy.
Well, thanks. I really do appreciate that!
A lot of people have found this discussion to be useful/beneficial. Make sure you see @timcliff's new post about the hard fork. Apparently, the dev team has actually been paying attention and will be planning to incorporate some changes to the curves for all posts and will be keeping curation rewards for comments.
I will take a look, thanks for letting me know about it.