My suggestion is to let authors decide how much rewards they want to allocate to curators.
I've suggested the same thing long ago, but recently some people are realized that it could be done without appealing to developets, just by using some simple bot.
On Golos there's an initiative to share autor/curator rewards 50/50 and people using it now distribute about 10% of total reward pool.
As an author you just have to use bot, which calculates rShates received and transfers the corresponding amount GbG back to curators.
Does the bot allow you to change percentage? Like use a different percentage for every of your post..I think its very important to introduce randomness in curation so that people are always incentivized to search for new content.
How many users roughly use this bot? and is there some user friendly interface to interact with it?
Yes, it's possible to change percentage. However it's some sort of "community 50/50" now, so unless you set it on 50+% your post would't be reblogged by "community account" and consequently will get less views. There's at least 100+ people using it . There's also some sort of "customer service".
Like I only use mobile phone for posting and bot is working only on desktop, but I can just send the link for my post to the helper, he will run the bot on my behalf and I will transfer the distributed amount to him after.
Also apart from golos.io there's another client for Golos goldvoice.club which afaik allows setting percentage for "curators cashback"
It's a good initiative but needs to be integrated seamlessly in the UI for all users and devices to adopt it which is why I think it would be better if the steem blockchain allowed for it directly.
Glad I found this article and topic. I am getting really tired to see those "circles"....Curating used to be fun but now I feel I have to compete with bots and also use one myself. Things don't feel right. I don't understand enough about calculations but I enjoyed curating manually much more. I still do and turn off steemvoter once in a while because there are many great authors I would miss out voting for.