So at the moment, it's on the HIGH end, with hbd.funder taking in 10-15 of the 51 (20-30%), correct?

I haven’t kept track of hbdfunder rewards.

Through the curation rewards, 50% of this is going directly into people's pockets.

Yes the same rewards they would get for voting anything else. Net zero change.

I certainly agree. Especially when some of these same folks are zeroing out content creators for political reasons, calling it "rewards disagreements," then dropping $300-600 upvotes on literal spam.

In your example someone was benefiting in this no one is.

What a simple, practical argument for much more decentralization of stake! Why not delegate yours out to any of the dozens of communities getting by with a couple thousand HP? That's always been my model personally, to simply delegate out the earned HP - because james' delegation is more than enough for anybody to have the keys to.

Not sure how you get that. My stake is spread out to almost 300 unique authors a week. More so than most anyone. I don’t delegate out my stake, I prefer to use my influence how I please.