It's quite simple, if you're not curating for any of the many reasons you and others have stated above and before, you're then curating for an additional interest in direct monetary rewards meaning you're getting more than the 50% return.

I haven't looked at pimp token yet, but if there's any additional rewards on the table curators are now corrupted to want to reward that content and ignore others not offering more.

If you just reward people with a token or send them part or all of the curation rewards you're still just earning the same or up to the same amount as any other stakeholder, but if you get something extra this gives you an advantage which is often derived by the delegation of the authors you upvote.

I didn't read the full post, mostly the part about ocdb and where you tagged me, just thought I'd make that part clear.

That's one of the biggest issues we don't want to incentivize because during the bid bot era most authors who didn't buy votes were ignored and those buying votes only received a portion of the profits making 50-50 more like 20-80 in favor of curators.

I'm sure there's a lot of different issues but this one was big enough for me to start speaking up about it and taking action. Sure it sucks the person downvoted decided to just abandon his community and activity here but what that was his choice and not one I was hoping or aiming for.