Highly commendable approach ! This really a professional effort, congratulations !
However, I'm wondering whether we are not all agonizing over things which, while important, are not the most important nor the most urgent.
Consider the following : we need more great content and great content creators on this platform to attract people - eyeballs, attention, thus investment. But tweaking the economic system will mostly concern those who are already in and understand a very complex mechanic.
The great content creators from outside steem (those blogging on their own blogs, on Medium or somewhere else), that will bring a lot or reputation and attention to this content platform, could not be expected to understand in detail the difference between 25% and 50% curation or linear and n*1.3 rewards at the beginning - this is for geeks like us who know the system!
At first they'll just see that they get some crypto whereas on Medium they probably weren't getting anything.
Shouldn't we rather, collectively, spend more time on marketing this platform outside the crypto world in order to increase the overall size of the community ? Rather than agonizing over tweaks to the economics?
Just consider
P.S. self-upvoted out of commodity - to have less scrolling to do in order to find my comment among the throng of comments
Your comment, @sorin.cristescu reminds me of some flagging I've seen that troubles me.
You talk about posters who are already posting outside of Steem coming here.
As most of the flagging, so it seems to me, is nowadays done by bots, they find the original posts and flag the poster, despite it being mentioned in the post that this is a copy of the original by the same person.
Another system that angers me is that someone plagiarises, they are caught out and flagged. No problem what happens is good....but, some bots do not punish you just for that cheat, they keep on flagging you and warning others that you are on their black list (as an example) - and you can only get released by apologising and humbling yourself with pathetic promises you will not do it again. Whenever I see this, it sickens me and makes me want to #walkaway
Thanks for your comment, Arthur.
Of course it would be best if people post original content here first before going outside. Why would you want to copy to Steemit something that has already been made public on Medium or elsewhere.
I can understand there is natural tendency to suspect that of being an attempt at milking the reward pool.
Why not post original content here BEFORE going to post it someplace else (if at all) ?
If the content is already available elsewhere, what's the point in copying it here?