I think getting rid of the comment curve might be a good idea
As far as the blockchain is concerned, posts and comments are the same thing. Posts are just top-level comments.
The official narrative for the curve's existence is to "fight abuse", but I believe the true use-case is to fuck over small accounts and give more inflation to the top. This actually works out in our favor, because we are not small accounts, but I still don't like it. Bad for decentralization. Bad for rewarding valuable comments and low payout posts.
But you really have to know the point you're arguing. People like Wolf say one thing and do another. You think you're arguing about comment rewards when the unspoken argument is short-term gains for the elite.
This wasn't even supposed to be my point. My point was you can't get rid of the "comment curve". You can only get rid of the curve entirely or not at all. This is because removing the curve for only comments (non-top-level posts) will open the door for users to "exploit" the network again. Meaning there would be no point to keeping it around for top-level posts, given the official narrative or even by sourcing the unofficial one.
I think it's pretty obvious that the curve needs to go because free downvotes are doing a great job of stopping abuse by themselves.
As soon as I read "As far as the blockchain is concerned" I realized what I had said :) Yep - the curve, not the comment curve.
I don't think it is for lining pockets though and I do think it was intended to curb abuse, but perhaps it is enough to have RCs and downvotes.
Yeah I was wondering if I was just babbling on for no reason. Personally I lean more and more toward the idea that there is no such thing as reward pool abuse and anyone should be able to do anything they want for any reason. Free downvotes makes this concept even more valid.
As long as they are used. It might also be easier with 10 million users trying to earn at one time as the large abuse would still be dealt with, but content popularity would act more like it does on other platforms.
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