Ok, I just read sigmajin's post and..I get it. From a pure mathematical perspective, what you do makes perfect sense.
What you've got is a PR problem. I'll grant you are very polite. When you say "Hi there, I liked your post but I'm going to have to downvote due to <insert complex math that 90% won't understand>", it just..looks bad. It makes you look bad, it makes Steemit look bad. People will go to minds.com and complain about how the whales are bullies and censorship here.
I don't know. Maybe this goes back to the whole (N * log N) thing. I guess that would help with this.
Well said. I agree about changing the reward curve.