It's not about how much HP you have, it's about how much is payed out per post. I have ~20k and if I vote on content that does not get to the point where the payout becomes linear it is worth about half of what it could be but it is worth more than that on higher rewarded posts.
One the one hand the convergent curve discourages spam but as you pointed out the tradeoff is that accounts that do not get regular votes from high powered accounts have a lower incentive to post or comment.
If we had millions of users with a more even distribution of stake it would not be much of an issue. Content creators with a large following similar to what we see on regular social media could make bank without the support of large stakeholders. But we are not there yet.
16hive x .57 = 9.12htu = ~310k hp to overcome the tax.
Everybody with less than ~310k hp are having their stake reduced in influence on the pool.
If you have 155k hp, your tax is ~25%.
If you have less than 155k hp, your tax is up to 50%.
Would you buy hive, and power up, knowing that unless you powerup over 176k usd's worth your influence is reduced the less you do powerup, then on top of that, if you don't vote 100%, or combine on a post that equals that 100%, you lose money because you are too poor to play with the big people.
I can't believe I've missed this angle for as long as I have, I'm slipping.
My curation ROI is ~19% which is well above the inflation schedule, add another 3% for staking rewards to the mix and I am almost doing a 3x. What i think you are not considering is the ratio of vested hive against the virtual supply. Since not all of the hive is powered up a larger portion of the inflation goes to the stake that is active.
Of course not everyone has the same results but I have been around here for almost 5 years and I know how and when to vote. I don't even need to use a voting bot (only about 20%-25% of my votes are automated).
I anticipate that the next hardork will reduce my curation ROI but I am not sure by how much.
You are doing much better than I am, but I rarely vote a post with a payout higher than 2htu.
I think that what you have missed is that if I was spouting nonsense someone would correct me.
They hurried up and got on this when I started beating its drum.
I can't believe that they did this to us two years ago and still expect respect from us.
It was a very questionable thing to do, iyam.
BT is saying that there will be differences in the curation, but not alot.
I don't quite get what you are saying here. Who is "they"?
The folks that made the decision to introduce the convergent linear curve.
It was a pretty stincy move, iyam.
I doubt we will ever have a million daily posters, just for the record.
We don't need them, 100k is plenty.
When I am talking about millions I am referring to content consumers not content producers.