First, Welcome to Blurt @rycharde! These discussions are great, love hearing different ideas and opinions.
I wanted to mention that because of the transactions fee's the dust vote threshold is essentially no longer needed but I see @jacobgadikian has beat me to it.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the reward and curation curve! As far as I can tell, anecdotally, there is a preferred direction that users would like to go. This is something that i'm sure will continue to be discussed, and a decision was made to test a linear curve on testnet in the future to see if things explode or not..
Hi and thanks!
Nothing will "explode", the reward pool will decrease and then settle at some new level.
I'm actually about to publish my thoughts on the convergent-linear curve and that the curve has some interesting properties if we choose the parameters wisely for the benefit of the whole economy :-)