1. Kill curation rewards.

While you're talking about people have the right to vote as they see fit, you talked about removing the incentives to vote from them. It sounds not right to me.

While people vote to give others author rewards, they also get some for themselves. IMHO the more they get and the more they give to the chosen few, the less others will get. Thus less people will be happy. This kind of behavior was driving out users already.

I agree that current design is flawed. However, even within a flawed system, we can still try our best to play as positively as possible, before it get fixed. Everyone tries to milk the system then nobody will win.

I'm not saying that what I'm doing has no downside. I mean, there are trade-offs.

Thanks for expressing your opinion.