Ok, so let me get this straight through scenario in regards to awards, curation, etc.

If someone is a regular poster that posts decent quality content, they're likely to be curated more as the system encourages curation, and thus lower quality posts will receive less. Thus clogging up the system with less garbage or (shit posts) getting rewarded for being shit and encouraging good or decent content with effort put into it to be able to potentially earn more through the means of encouraging more manual curation.

On one hand, this could get rid of many of the issues of trash posts managing to rake in some decent steem somehow, but on the other hand, it could very easily also be a massive screw you to the lower staked accounts and their content for no reason other than not being big enough to start out.

I think I see what's going on but I need to experiment with the new hard fork once it's live and with it's kinks worked out before I make a video showcase about how this works and all that jazz.