It doesn't dilute my curation influence, it amplifies it.
Only regarding to this post. Assuming bots consists 50% of voting power cast, they actually dilute human voter's power by 50%
In tracking whether the foraging and gardening trails are working to build community
It's good thing. How do you identify a post meets foraging or gardening trail? Only by tag or by author? Probably you read and decide, and your effort adds value.
Instead you are now proposing to shift 3-10% of author rewards to investors.
They are already getting 3% (on average) rewards via curation. But by their best cost-benefit maximizing strategy, they don't want to spend time and effort, which actually contribute this "content" platform. Investors reward is a lure to separate for-profit users and to protect real curators from money-driven powers.
If there's any way to prevent profit-driven votes (no reading, no evaluation), like CAPTCHA, it would be the best option. But this is blockchain... it's impossible as far as I know.
Thanks for your kind words of encouragement. And your offer of SP delegation. I will take you up on that after HF17, if you still want to consider it then. I've enjoyed including some posts from the Korean community on the @foraging-trail, like from @bontonstory. Thanks for the discussion. I got a lot out of this.
Kr also has real farmer @jejujinfarm. She's growing tangerines and some other plants. I just knew @bostonstory is there. Thanks!
I see your point about dilution in total, rather than for a single post. I do think that your cost-benefit has to consider opportunity costs, too, though. I know I reduce my total income by curating rather than writing more articles, especially since my SP is not enough to earn very much curation rewards. So I am not necessarily a rational actor. And with people being able to interact directly with the blockchain, it is more difficult to set up some kinds of systems, like you point out!
NO! IMHO you are the most rational actor in the long-run. You are making the pie bigger, while other seemingly rational actors are just eating up the pie.
Although gardening is not my cup of tea, I really value your work, and my movements aims to support devotional guys like you. I am also supporting and building Korean community, so most of my power is used for it. But if you need more Steem Power, I can consider to delegate some after HF17 :)