I think what you are doing is great, we've needed somebody to kick the hive for some time.
Drama brings in the eyeballs, after all.
The other day an improvement to the curation game occurred to me.
What if we could separate flags into curation flags and author flags, each not affecting the other.
Rather than have to punish good authors for bad curation, we could only punish the curation.
IF the curator wants to flag only one or the other, this should be an option open to them.
Some curators are long term drains on the system, while some other long term drains are authors.
Having the ability to discern, and treat differently, the two types of abuse would be a great move forward, imo.
What do you think about this?
I like where your head is at. I am not sure how hard that would be to implement or what all the downstream effects there would be.
One negative downstream effect I can think of is this creates a way for curators to curate other curators which could snowball out of control.
Side question - Is there currently a way for authors to reject the curation of a curator? I don't really see any cons in giving the author this power and it would allow people to "turn off" certain like spam "notifications".
Any change is likely to open new and unthought of ways of abuse, probably should run it by somebody that can better model the math than me.
No way to block curation, it would also block flags.
We just have to work out our own problems socially, I guess.
https://peakd.com/test/@abit/whales-no-up-voting-test
Changes have a long history here, you just have to look back to see how they worked out.
https://peakd.com/steemit/@karenmckersie/re-mindhunter-re-karenmckersie-re-mindhunter-re-karenmckersie-re-mindhunter-the-whale-experiment-has-failed-whale-exceptions-to-the-rule-are-downvoting-minnow-content-on-a-daily-basis-20170420t085626080z
Here is thepoor taxbeing celebrated by somebody that couldn't math.Oops, that is about the death of the n2, the poor tax was 2 forks later.
What hg19 did was give us linear rewards so the bidbots could reap us for the 2 years stinc went on (alleged) opium hazed walkabouts.
I was in that group for a long time, too.
Then folks started pointing out that it penalized anybody with less than 400k hp, I labeled it a poor tax, and they repealed it in the next fork.
But, pay close attention at who exactly was pushing it.
They are still here, they still rake the pool continuously.
The nice thing about all this being recorded with blockchain security is that they can't hide what they have done.
IF anything.