@cflclosersI just came from reading a wonder post by
Hive has a unique chance to flourish because it is going to be founded by badasses who get it. But what needs to happen is those who start out as whales need to bend over backwards to vote for people who post. If they don't like the content, who cares? Don't downvote just help the people understand what type of content is valuable. If people are supported they will feel a sense of ownership. They will feel like valuable members of the cool club.
Sometime back we had Hard Fork 21 which introduced a couple of things. A new reward curve, 50/50 rewards splitting, SPS and free downvotes.
Rewards
The rewards curve is changing. We expect posts that would make more than 20 STEEM under the old rules to earn more after the changes. Those posts that would have made less than 20 STEEM under the old rules will receive less after the changes.
Reward Split
Reward funding is being changed from the 75/25 split that currently exists, to a 50/50 split between author and curator. That means you will be rewarded significantly more for curating content after the fork.
I imagine a lot of conversation and compromise went into this but out of the four things that were introduced only one actually functioned as intended. Obviously that is the SPS.
Not only did it become extremely difficult to grow your Steem Power but whatever you earned was split even further between you and the curator. As 
One of the other reasons that was put out there is that it would kill of bid bots, but that did not happen naturally. #NewSteem gave rise to downvoting with total disregard for the quality of post, so long as you used a bid bot.
That was one of the most disgusting campaigns, which only succeeded in centralizing high upvotes among large accounts some with small teams that went around upvoting content around particular niche tags.
Most found the SBI (Steem Basic Income) initiative a welcoming haven for regular upvotes. But even then, due to the downvoting culture, one user decided to automate downvotes for anybody who got upvoted by the SBI account.
Why? Nobody even knows. But he definitely took a cue from the downvoting of people who used bid bots making comparisons that it was the equivalent of buying upvotes. SMH!
The so called content discovery never materialized, curation revolved around big accounts as friends upvoted each other while the rest fought for the scraps under the table.
@Fredrikaa talked about manual curation being the way forward and indeed that is correct. However, people will always take the easy way out. If I can make money seated on some beach sipping on freshly squeezed passion juice, best believe I will do that.
But it is so easy to just add a bunch of your friends on an autovoter and farm rewards especially with the 50/50 split. The hard work went out of the blockchain long ago with that HF.
- The question is, is there a discussion to be had on this subject?
- Can we move to a point where authors, quality authors at that, get a larger chunk of post rewards rather than curators?
- How do we encourage more manual curation?
We have already gotten it right with the new communities. Communities encourage more participation and you are more likely to meet like-minded individuals and get visibility which is a big bonus for authors and curation.
Many mistakes will be made in the future but let us not repeat the mistakes of Steem.