I use SBI too. And actually that downvoter has now confined himself to downvoting only the purchasers, not the users. (I've had multiple downvotes from him due to my activity with @pifc - which includes buying a single SBI share for our winners.)
I agree that the author needs to be paid well (that's part of my point - that should be the main goal of the blogging blockchain.) In many ways, it doesn't matter what the percentage is as much as what the end result is. (Someone said that 10% royalty made off 100k is a lot better than 100% of nothing. - Severely paraphrased.)
For me, 50/50 curation has turned out to be good, but I hear what you're saying that not everyone has had that experience. Bringing in consumers is the only way that everyone can get paid and offering them a decent carrot can bring more rewards for everyone - if it's done right.
I still haven't really heard anyone (SteemTron, Hive or other) give any real idea of how to bring in the consumers who will feed us all long term.
With the new communities I think curation will be impacted positively so maybe we should be seeing that soon.
I want to be successful on Hive so I am really hoping that a lot gets done towards building that feeling of ownership.
It will be a rough few weeks or months to start and then the community can finally settle down into building something worth using longterm.
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I remain hopeful. :-)
Something that would (I think) make curation more popular in general is eliminating the "first takes most" thing. I admit that with my 0.02 upvote, if a post is already over 1.0, I don't upvote... I'm not going to get any curation reward after all.
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I will admit I have never bothered learning the technicals of curation. I just vote regardless. Would love to see how that would work.
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