What if you could just SET the curation period?
I think the above question is an interesting thought. Select seven days and no more rewards after payment or select something else, in your example one year for longer reward earning periods. While interesting, it would be hard to "police" making it easy for abuse to take place. Abuse removed I kinda like the idea.
Thanks for the thoughts... reply...
I had more thoughts about it...
Even if people wants to attack based on long abuses... lies, etc.. They NEED to hold a LOT of RC to support that long period... because the RC needed to support that long period "should" be coming from the account selecting that period...
And I don't know easily how to best implement this... but something like, doing a loan of RC to the post in order to allow people to upvote (downvote should be excluded).
That would mean that for longer curations periods, people doing the post would be supporting everyone curation... and that should incentivise staking HIVE to get more RC.
Or rent RC...
With always the fact that downvoting could kill all the value... but that's already the case anyway.
Still brewing through the idea. Need more experts...