Hi @codebreaker, I was also wondering why there is such a huge gap in incentives between self upvoting and proper curation. I took a sabbatical from Steemit for about 8 months, and now see that the curation rewards were halved. I think that one of the reasons why content creation is now weighted higher is because Steemit as a platform needs to build its online presence quicker, and one way to achieve that is to have more good content creators publishing primarily on Steemit and sharing it everywhere else online. I do agree with this strategy, even though it does create some temporary incentive issues. I am now following you.