RE: Believe it or not, you can collect evidence for propositons by running tests.
You're so full of your own opinion, @tcpolymath.
Fact is: when @dtube gave back curation rewards, I had a much bigger incentive to upvote posts on dtube.
I even told @mahdiyari that I'd like to have an option on steemauto to give a bigger voting percentage on posts published on dtube.
And I wasn't even aware that @dtube removed this option. That's actually quite sad. But reading through the post it's obvious why they did it:
People didn't understand it. They thought dtube would take 25% rewards, but forgot that curation rewards were given back.
Changing it from 25% to 10% is the more beginner friendly way I guess.
And actually, the same beginner error is happening again. People think that they'd lose 33% of their author rewards, without adding the fact that voters will be more likely to vote.
At the time when dtube gave back curation rewards, if you would have made dtube videos instead of blog-posts, you'd have gotten bigger upvotes from me. Fact.
I understood it, but I am not a fan of video. Reading is so much faster then watching someone stumble over their words left and right and drink their coffee trying to appear relaxed...or worse trying to act all excited and talking in extremely annoying ways. You could have offered me 90% curation and I still wouldn't care about voting on video.