I alluded to my opinions in the post but I'm also in agreement that moving to linear curation rewards is the right decision for now. That being said I still have concerns for future behaviors this may encourage.

My biggest fear is that the larger stakeholders may use their larger influence to block out smaller users from having a voice. Combined with 2.5 free downvotes, one of our top SPORTS whales could eliminate a lot of rewards pool competition by downvoting smaller accounts that get less rewards.

This could be counteracted by adopting a Blurt style system of no downvotes and allow the crowd to determine the top post while allowing stake to vote wherever it feels is best. This also has a load of negatives associated with it so for now I'm open to exploring linear as is to see if we run into any trouble and then address from there.