I feel if we drastically reduce curation we are going to eliminate any incentive to power up. The majority of users already power down and sell as fast as they earn it. Very few will lock up any significant amount to just vote witnesses and proposals.

I don't think it eliminates any incentive to power up, although I agree it reduces it. It would probably make sense to reduce the powerdown time to 30 days at the same time as a counter-incentive.

But what I don't agree with is that "disincentivizing staking" = incentivizing selling. Staking just to create scarcity is just playing a game with people's heads, IMO.

I disagree, I think shitty auto voting is bad.

I agree with that. I just haven't seen a solution that just eliminates bad auto-voting.

The other problem is very few are downvoting to counter the shitty voting that goes on, which would be a balance to keep the auto voting in check.

I've also yet to see a decent proposal for how to make downvoting work well socially, unfortunately.