Couple Ideas:
Make downvotes blind. More people would downvote more because they wouldn't fear as much retaliation.
Make is so anyone set up with a voting bot or trail automatically receives less curation returns. Isn't there a way to see all users who participate?
Remove timing altogether and make curation simply a pool of your HP compared to all others. Most autovotes are to provide incentive for timing to get better curation returns. Just make is so if you vote in the 7 day period you get paid based on that. Why reward timing of a vote for curation? Maybe I'm missing the point of that.
Remove trending and force people to follow more. There is hardly any incentive to follow. You follow good authors and it's easier to manually curate. Also make it so you see what your followers like/comment/resteem kind of like how twitter works by default. Going to trending takes work and on hive.blog it's the default landing page.
My opinion is that active hive users should in fact be more rewarded, they add value to the platform through engagement. This is an interesting topic. I see a lot accounts come to Hive to only cross post, I hate to see that especially when they never engage and are essentially coming to hive solely to milk it. I like to call them platform whores :) I don't like the idea of making curation rewards less. Honestly if you did that, I'd unstake all my Hive right away and just try to pull in author rewards only to sell it on exchanges.
Good ideas!
While I like this idea, there could be some downsides.
Good content creators and whatnot will benefit, but some will complain about distribution. This could also disincentivize discovering new content creators. Why bother when you could just drop a vote on say, @taskmaster4450, or something.
I think places like YouTube has spoiled us in terms of content discovery. Frontends do not offer that sort of algorithm.
Idk how this is possible without some manual intervention and centralized "blacklists".
Many of these points are impossible if you think at the blockchain layer, now I really am not a dev or that technical but here's just some thoughts that come to mind:
This would be cool, but right now I've haven't seen a good solution for how to do it. Doesn't mean it's impossible though.
What about increasing the curation rewards to 75% to make more people motivated to stake even more and buy more hive what will lead to lower inflation not by reducing rewars, but by making more people invest in it ?