You're right, self-voting incentives are too high and it's a big problem. On the other hand, curation never really worked even before the introduction of linear reward curve and consequent spread of self-voting.

So even fixing this wouldn't fix curation. For that, I argue, you need 1) better content discovery, so that people are able to actually find the good content even from unknown authors - this is a necessary condition for curation which has never been satisfied on Steem. Without it it's just circle jerking of known authors who have no competition and thus no incentive to continue writing good content 2) start rewarding the good content, not just good authors - this will incentivize both the creation and curation.

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