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50/50 is very arbitrary number too

Why not go milder like 30/70 or 40/60? Why not go wilder like 60/40 or even 25/75?
In my opinion just let author dictate how much curation reward they are willing to give on each post. If an author believe higher curation will be beneficial they can set it to any number higher than 25/75 and vice versa if it's allowed.

Sure, it could also be 75% curation and 25% author. Authors could even set it themselves, even though it could become confusing for people to understand. I personally think 50/50 is a good number, because it's fairer than anything else.

Because human dont vote after more or less 15 min all day long.

I would argue the curation curve should not even start until after 24 hours after the initial post time. Give everyone a legit chance to read it or know that it was even published and have 2 curation windows, the 25hr-72hr window, then immediately start back up again at 72hr+ to 144hr then it stops at the start of day 7, that is for the curation window of the post. That way if you miss a vote on post you can still hit another sweet spot of curation later on to encourage possibly more voting on a really good post that may take 4-5 days to get to you.

That's why they advocate it.

I would argue that 50/50 is bad for everyone as it devalues the platform in the long run and shows that the people in charge of Steem are willing to make drastic changes to how inflation is distributed without community consensus.

People should want to be whales. Giving people an incentive to sell their stake and power-it down is what will bring downfall to this platform if not fixed accordingly.

Yep. I really think it should be up to each author to decide how much they want to give to curators. 50/50 could be the default in order to avoid confusion and it could be left to each front end to decide what kind of tools they want to make available for users to set their curation percentage.

I actually try to avoid voting my own posts usually because they curate less because I prefer to not front run my friends' votes on my own post, and I can curate much more voting on other posts that way giving someone a reason to not vote only their own posts all of the time.

Thank you @markkujantunen. At least the price of steem hasn't fallen to this level yet on the coinmarketcap rankings. And yes that is the most inventive ticker symbol in the history of any exchange, lol.