I'm told that the way voting and curating works is if one person is the only person that votes and that one person votes only one post that all of the rewards pool would go to that one author.
I still haven't totally wrapped my mind around how the votes interact.
I do know that the reason my posts round down is that later higher weight votes take from my predicted payout to make up the reward for the higher sp account's beneficiary.
The higher a post goes on the trending page the shorter the payout tail becomes.
If this is, in fact, the case, I can only surmise that when a post gets voted to the top of the trending list to the tune of $1000 and double the normal number of daily voters show up to vote in those unusually high rewards, that could've enticed folks to stay around, to reward an inside member of the high sp account's 'approved' list, that something is amiss.
I don't really have all the time I would like to investigate, but when I hear that somebody 'deserves' a reward from the pool to support a lifestyle they feel entitled to for doing something that everybody else does for paltry rewards is just too much.
I don't really have time, at this point, to read through all of the various opinions offered in frustration by others, I just got to call it like I currently see it from the perspective of the data that I do have.
This place isn't ready to support a large staff until it attracts enough attention to warrant them.
While we can still scroll through the 'new' feed in a couple hours we hardly need folks to 'pick out the gems'.
Allow me to clarify: You can move about and do as you please, but you can't avoid the consequences of your actions.
I don't see any need to change anything to do with the rewards pool.
A lot of time and energy went into getting Steemit just right.
IF ya'll abandon all that hard work the first time the wind goes against you what is the point?
I'd like to impose some arbitrary number of days between changes, but that isn't realistic.
Before we change the main features of Steemit I would like to see Steemit given a chance to change 'us' first.
We are making the future's history here, can we not go down in it as flighty and/or wishy-washy?
I get why the minnows were being kept down, to not to have done so would have made things difficult had the currency exploded.
Our snowball isn't growing fast enough to justify keeping the poor folks poor and powerless on the system.
We currently have too much hostility towards outsiders controlling what gets the big bucks.
They use every tool in their power to keep their dominance from being diluted/nullified.
And that isn't all bad.
It's just the current state of the Steemit.
The question is what, if anything, will 'we' do as a community?
For you insiders, I ask that you put the platform ahead of 'enriching' yourselves at the expense of those that you are trying to attract.
A rising tide raises all ships.
Perhaps rather than infighting with folks who have almost no influence on the system can we get some stickers, self sticking flyers, or any other advertising ephemera to post on every public place we can find?
The community does not need gurus to determine what they like.
Where is the porn now?
Steemit was purportedly launched to enable a platform for facilitating consensus management of the world, can we try to let consensus work here?
That means doing more than checking with the echo chambers' sycophants.
I promise that 'we' aren't suicidal, 'we' do want the platform to succeed, 'we' just see it from a wider, outsider perspective free from sycophantic blinders.
If we just moved the minnow math 2 or 3 decimals to the left I think we could add some incentive to stick around for the masses that it will take to make us snowball.
If you don't like what I have said, please feel free to speak up.
If you would rather avoid my issues and snipe me from behind, then that is your problem, and my minor annoyance.
I openly invite your input, and disrespect you if you have had my name in your mouth without having spoken to me.
I am who I am, and I doubt that that is gonna change much this late in my game.
While I got your attention, I don't use 
I don't plan to use them, nor recommend them to anybody else, until I get some redress on why they didn't keep their word of an email announcing the public beta.
So, you got that going for you,....
Have a perfectly peaceful day.