We realized that a lot of Scot tribes just used 50/50 and while that might work out perfectly, we felt like it's a bit too much for curators.

If we look at a system with 25% for curators, that's just not enough. You want a platform where curators are willing to vote for good content. Organic voting is the foundation pillar. If there is no organic voting, the platform is doomed.

So with that in mind you need at least 35% for curators in our opinion.

We dediced for 40%, because we think that might be enough for curators to be motivated for a lot of organic voting. Particularly in the early times, where a lot of organic voting is done by the team, more is not needed.
And for creators, 60% is a big number to be motivated to create high quality content.

Of course it's all a big test, nobody knows the perfect numbers yet. Most probably there are even multiple different perfect numbers, depending on the topic of the community.

We will monitor the effect of 60/40 on our community. It will take its time but if we realize it's not perfect, we can always change the numbers a tiny bit.