My thoughts, exactly, @lyndsaybowes.

Those who are supposedly going to drop all else to manually curate with a 50/50 split should come our way first, and do it now, as a show of good faith.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure how we keep them doing it after the 50/50 happens. Apparently there's a need for trust, but trust works both ways, and somehow, that needs to be established.

All your key points are on the money. I agree. Not sure how this helps the little fish with either curation or their posts. Increasing a dust vote by 33% isn't going to really get them going anywhere that much faster, and taking 33% away from them on the other side won't any. The only possibility that helps if in fact higher SP actually curates more smaller fish and gets them the $1-10 STEEM for their posts.

Even if the non-curating upper SP accounts want to, though, if I do the math, I see the red fish outnumbering the number of dolphins, orcas and whales by a big margin. Forget about the minnows.

I don't know. Just seems like there's not that much to gain for the smaller guys. Again.