yeah fair enough that is exactly true :) Ultimately, proposed change as is still decreases the % of the reward pool dominated by the self voting behavior more than returning that reward to the reward pool of the individual post. it isn't a hypothetical "if" a huge account that self votes will set up a bot system to maximize return from the self vote under any new system, it is a certainty.

Think about the huge sums we are talking about at the top end - the haejin's of the world - I think it is clearly better that the large share from the self vote should be distributed to the pool vs. stay in the post where ranchorelaxo will get almost all of it. And also think about what you want to be motivating - do you really want to motivate people to upvote haejin and similar posting so that they can get the curation reward? Whatever small chunk of the extra curation returned to the Haejin post pool under your proposal that is not gobbled up by ranchorelaxo will go to users in the proportion that they upvote a haejin post... LOL

You would rather increase the curation pool on a haejin post vs. send that huge chunk out to all the other posts? Think about it as simply as you can. I am not taking the time to look up what % of the reward pool haejin dominates right now - lets call it 10%. If the chunk of curation from the haejin self vote is returned to the reward pool at large, haejin only recovers 10% of it. If that chunk of curation stays within the haejin post itself the haejin/ranchorelaxo combo recovers almost all of it and whatever they don't recover goes to people who upvote a huge self vote abuser. I don't think this is what we want to incentivize.