I still vote manually, a lot of the content I vote on I actually look at or read, (not all, just a lot of it), so the use of the time to read is nice if I happen to catch a post right at posting, but most stuff I vote on has been out for at least several hours, or in some cases days. Giving options to the Author as to how they want the curation paid out on their post is a nice idea.

• Curation based on read time
• curation based on random linear start time
• curation based on a linear backward time
• curation start point day three to 7, then add day one and two.

Just a couple things that likely can not be done but some food for thought. It is the authors post, and if they want to set when curation begins they should be allowed.

I think there is room on Hive for many types of post, and for many reward/ROI systems. Change and new systems is just something people have become wary of.