RE: Suggestion: Creating a New Curation System to Incentivise Upvoting Minnows and Creating Long Lasting Content (Part 1)
Great idea mate, let's hope this post gets the visibility it deserves and gets some witnesses' attention for their comment.
I particularly like your idea about small rewards for posts older than 7 days... It's slightly different to the main topic at hand but it's definitely something that seems to make sense to me. If you discover somebodies blog and they wrote a post a month ago that you thought was amazing and worthy of an up-vote, in the current system there's no incentive to do that and idk why.
Just because content is old doesn't mean it isn't worthy of an up-vote or is no longer relevant. I can see why they implemented the old system for simplicities sake... but your proposal is better imo.
Same goes to your idea about rewarding curators with 50/50 SBD/SP... I don't even know why this isn't a thing. Why wouldn't you want to encourage SP growth by giving half of the rewards in SP, just like author rewards.
Anyway, thanks for your contributions :)
YES! These 2 points are something I personally very very want. I self vote myself a LOT, a large reason is because SBD is so high right now, and upvoting others and seeing curation reward in SP makes me sad when I know I could've gotten so much more if half was in SBD and then buy Steem and power up!
The thing about 7 days, basically have a 10% rewards pool for it. Curators gain no curation rewards and can only vote with a maximum of 10% of their power, regardless of how much SP. Each month, the 7 days+ posts share the 10% rewards proportional to the amount of shares they have (using the shares system I mentioned before).
If you come across an article older than 7 days and want to show your appreciation to the author leave a comment on the article. If author comments back, upvote their comment as a way to pay them.
I too like the idea of leaving rewards open past 7 days but there are some negatives to that should be addressed. Leaving rewards open past 7 days could cause a lot of spam rewards. It would also complicate the checks and balances we currently have on posts. Currently you can upvote a post til 6 days and 12 hours but after that it is downvote only; they do this so that people can't upvote their things @ 6 days 23 hours 50 mins and steal a huge reward. The 12 hour downvote rule gives time for community regulation on shit posts. There are people that watch the expiring posts with high value for content.