hi traf, i just wanted to say that i'm really glad to see that you've re-invested back almost 10% of your upvotes to support comments and other post like this one, and also that you have vote for 2 worthy witnesses @curie and @pfunk

i understand clearly that the system is non sustainable due to the number of large stakeholders increasingly delegating to bots and self-upvoting, but delaying the inevitable will give Steemit Inc. time to implement a solution without scaring away new Steemain in the droves and causing new massive FUD to drop Steem unnecessarily back to extremes like $1.3 until change is implemented

EOS is coming out earliest July. Probably between release to December this year, they will announce the name of their new social-network component running native. Then we'll begin to see a mass adoption (aka direct competition) and migration from mainstream social-media to crypto starting in 2019 to both EOS and Steem.

I hope you understand that even a 10%-20% contribution from you will contribute critical time for Steemit Inc.'s leadership, Steem blockchain coders, and witnesses to rectify and bring incentives back to quality content and retaining talents.

A quarter (3 months) is almost like 1 year crypto time, alot can change in next 3 months. Once again, thank you for making a difference, I'm sincerely proud that you went down from 98% to 90% in just 1 week time.

Upvoted 100% for your actions as well as your ideas and suggestions above, it sounds practical, and will likely give Steem new life towards a sustainable reward system that will promote growth, and help us maintain our head-start in accumulating a stronger user base.

See my comment below to add to your ideas to help us improve:

https://steemit.com/funny/@freebornangel/re-trafalgar-re-kevinwong-embracing-linear-equality-on-steem-unlearning-the-sucker-and-maximising-the-arsehole-in-me-20180420t150938837z#@dj123/re-freebornangel-re-trafalgar-re-kevinwong-embracing-linear-equality-on-steem-unlearning-the-sucker-and-maximising-the-arsehole-in-me-20180421t141441587z

My guess is a slighly superlinear curve and curation no less than 40% at least, possibly 50%. While on paper it looks like authors are getting less, in practice when no one is sufficiently incentivized (outside of generosity) to curate, good authors right now are getting far less. Finding good content early must provide the finder a higher return on average than if they were to just use all their votes on themselves for this place to function properly.

@NED, @SNEAK, @ANDRARCHY ...... Please Come Read What @Trafalgar Suggested Above!