The system encourages people to start an intelligent discussion, related to the post, as early as possible. The only way you can do that, is to read and be interested enough in the post, to comment.
Sure if you're an expert speed-reader, you'll have an advantage, but you can never average real life out to zero, some people will always have an advantage. My blogging experience gives me an advantage over posters without experience. Someone with more time on their hands and no children, has an advantage over me, that's just life.
The best we can do is build a system, that gives everyone as fair a crack at the whip as possible, I think this new system does that and I'm hoping against hope, that they get implemented.
15, accounts, holding 99% of the curation awards, is not giving everyone a fair crack of the whip as that's probably a ratio of around, 0.1:1 and that's not good.
CG