Brainstorming
(i) Make it into a competitive game? Whales could sponsor and reward "curation contests" among individual or teams of curators, using their own preferred metrics for what it means to be a good curator. Someone could even make a "fantasy curators" game, modeled after fantasy sports leagues.
(ii) Modify rewards to let authors, instead of directing shares of rewards to a designated account, delegate a share of rewards to whatever curators vote on the post.
(iii) Consider redoing the payout algorithm to use something like a second price auction for determining rewards (Google found this style of auction to be more appropriate for their digital advertising sales. It tends to encourage bidding to stay more in line with perceived value.)
(iv) As @sigmajin suggested quite some time ago, put reverse auction penalties back into the curation rewards pool instead of giving them to the author.
Great ideas. I like the idea of creating a game. Delegation of rewards is also a good idea. Second price auction is interesting too.
Delegation of rewards to a post's voters might be vulnerable to abuse, but I think it's more transparent and lower friction than the various post-boosting bots that are emerging. I have thought for a while that authors should be able to customize the percentage of curation rewards on their posts, so that would be a way to accomplish it.
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Please stop spamming the comments here and delete the duplicates - you are likely to end up with flags.
Ok. Your call. How else to make people aware? The idea is to collect all good ideas for developing the Steem platform in one dbase. As it is now everything is splayed out in comments across many articles. You really see it as spam?
I'm not sure but posting it under each comment will just annoy people.
Exactly !
I was just going to flag it.