How about not playing games with rewards at all? How about basing the curation reward, and the author reward, on the quality of the curators reputations, and number of curators?

These kinds of games only decrease the rewards potential to authors.

Steemit can become an awesome means for people to create a new paradigm in how to base an economy, and since automation is going to take all our jobs, we need a new paradigm.

Instead of playing the same kinds of games banksters do, let's really live up to the rhetoric and reward the authors, commenters, and curators for their actual creation of the value of the platform.

Make it simple, and fair, and people will stay. Don't and they won't. It really is as simple as that.