RE: A proposal to improve curation!

I don't think there would be a drastic change in terms of curation rewards.

Those people currently "winning" at curation (mainly through bots and auto-voting?) would get a little less. Those people who typically vote late (manual curators and curation communities?) would get a little more. There would be more curation paid out overall due to the removal of curation rewards going back to the reward pool in the first 5 minutes.

My guess is that there are quite a few whales (and curation communities like @ocd) who would do better under flat curation than they do currently and who could get behind the idea.

Hopefully the bigger change would be quality authors getting larger author payouts through better curation. Particularly newer and less well known authors.

This could bring an increase in retention of new quality authors. And a rise in quality posting to chase those bigger rewards.