Therefore, I believe the curve is a bad idea because it takes away from comment rewards which lower people wanting to put the effort to make great comments. hell, we should have trending comments, because some can be better than the actual content written or can complete it in some way. We should reward that do not penalize that; we know the curve hurts comments the most.
Trending comments sounds very interesting. Anything to make it worthwhile to engage with the content and people rather than just engage with the distribution of the reward pool (i.e. voting). I've been doing lots of comment curation lately. I don't understand, though, how does the reward curve penalize comments?
However, with good curation you can earn up to 20%! Not guaranteed and far from your average results, but its possible. You can also earn 5% or lower in curation if your voting sucks.
An intriguing idea, and the main thing seems to be how to assess what is considered good vs bad curation.
comments can trend now if they are voted high enough, we should encourage more of that! The curve hurts comments the most, simply because those are known for getting smaller votes. Engagement is fun and micro votes should be a cool feature we can advertise. I've become very anti curve the more I have thought about it, I was never really a fan, it sorta made sense on paper to stop spam farming, but in practice is just hurt small engagement.