You can't predict the curation award because it is dependent on who votes *after* you. If no-one else votes, then the prediction might be correct. But say someone flags the post? Then it's wrong. Say a whale votes, then it's also wrong.

Then the price of steem at teh time of payout comes into it as well. Too many variables.

A rough preview of what I'm seeing in my head -- 

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blakemiles/hello-world/fa5f7fe5f459f1f4f193ee294af18ac58379952a/rewardPredict.png

Sounds like a cool idea. I like it!

This seems like a good idea. I just want to make clear that I do not see this as a away to sanitize the proposed 5 vote change in the latest release. That proposed change is a big mistake.  But your suggestion is exactly the kind of innovation we need on the site. Rather than tinkering with things that don't need to be fixed and putting through changes that drive people away, they should be looking at site enhancements, apps, better retention. etc. Let's get some new people here and work to keep them.

If your suggestion could be implemented without making the site seem overly complicated , I'm all for it. I also wonder if we can have some "simple" and "richer" layouts for the site. People like me will probably stay with the simple interface most of the time, but if someone could click a button and change the view on their screen to include more features they want, that would be great. Fun features, real time communication, useful tools, analytics; it would be great if we could just have those but not clutter up the simple view too much. Give people the click-click option of changing view screens for their interface. I think that would give us the best of both worlds and help us retain more people who prefer one or the other.

good idea, i used to switch to steemstats to see my voting power. That would be nice if they integrate this key info right on steemit

I'm starting to feel like there are too many cooks in the kitchen. @jesta's idea is interesting, but it would create a psychological effect of "paying" (in tokens) to promote content. That goes against the genius that is Steemit in that people get paid without any form of microtipping involved. The white paper explains this well.

If any estimates like this were shown it would (IMO) only further increase the (sometimes out of whack) expectations already created here. I can see it now. There would be so many posts by people complaining about suggested payouts being wildly inaccurate because future votes (or lack of them). Isn't the curation reward completely dependent on the total payout which is completely unknown until the final payout amount? The site already has plenty of gamification and monetization techniques built in. Do we really need to increase them? The interface simplicity is one of the things I love the most about this site. It would be sad to see it get overly confused for new users.

To be clear, I'm not against sharing of new ideas and exploring new concepts. I think it's wonderful. I just hope the ideas are measured and thought through with the same level of psychological and game theory understanding as the founders put into what we enjoy now.

okay I'm still confused, when I went to go upvote you I didnt' see no slider. How do you see this slider?

Wouldnt the reward depend on how well the post did?

Great idea man I just did a similar post and @lukestokes just pointed this post out to me!

@blakemiles84 you nailed it! I was so wanting this the other day. Hopefully, they can implement it.