Honestly, the entire curation system on Hive/Steem is completely retarded and need to be fully redesigned from the ground up if it is ever going to work. The model Publish0x is using makes much more sense and fixes many of the issues Hive has, I wrote an entire post on it a while back 12 Reasons Why Publish0x works better for Blogging

Why not switch to a proof of stake model that gives passive returns to stakeholders allowing them to tip content they like with upvotes from which the value gets subtracted from their passive returns or directly from users wallet funds. This would also fix the issue of post-earnings only lasting 7 days which now mainly incentivizes garbage post2mine operations. The utility from the token can come from things like resource credits and voting rights. Add to that an up & downvote model where 1 account is 1 vote that actually incentivizes readers to upvote what they enjoy reading the most instead of what makes them the most money. This way there a much higher chance of outsiders going the front page and actually see something that is interesting instead of only posts about the platform itself. I'd love to have Hive as something similar to Reddit where you can come any time of the day and instantly find something interesting. With the current model that's all about the rewards, this will imo never happen.