Reading back old posts can be really good and fun. In this case I even decided to react, although it's a very old post and you probably don't remember precisely where it's all about...

This post was from 6 months ago. Back then you, and probably many others, were already hoping to see some good things from SMT'S. But one again it seems that things go very slowly, perhaps to slowly?

Then I came up with an idea that might help minnows. Why don't we have a system where higher upvotes provides a lower percentage pay out?

I don't know how to call it precisely, so let me show it with an example. 
A post with 1 upvotes gets a post out of $1.00.
A post with 2 upvotes gets a pay out of $1.95
A post with 3 upvotes gets a pay out of $2.85.
So the additional $ will decrease per extra upvote. And where I refer to upvotes I actually mean SP/VP. 

What do you think?

I also love this back and forth. I think with the rise of human whale curators, the whole system has returned to incentivizing the finding of good content first. Which is still hard because there's just SO MUCH. But if you can find a post that WILL get a curie first, you're the most likely to get a good curation reward. Alternatively, you can figure out the voting patterns of some trails and get in early on those. But that way lies a race to 0%

I am so thankful for this post! Curation always seemed like this thing that nobody was even bothering to explain.

I should have some data in the next couple of days. I think the results will vary between different authors so I may have to categorise into a few typical patterns even within the whales section.

The SMTs is a great point. I'm just hoping it's not too expensive to set up. I'd like to be able to distribute my own tokens and set my own reward rules!