This would just probably lead to "curators" piling up on these posts no matter the content quality.

I still feel raising the curation reward up as a baseline to make manual curation actually worth while will save this place or even better, actually make it mainstream eventually. To who'm this place works fine the way it is now? Everyone is either selling majority of their votes, or even worse, just voting themselves or inner circle. What good authors we may attract, they'll soon after leave because we don't have anyone trying to find them and bring them to public eye. Of course it's questionable how many views our trending get these days, other than those who just want to kiss some authors ass in hopes of upvotes. I've also noticed how many of the regular bidbotters just offer tips to their "readers" for some action, which they benefit from directly. @ned @andrarchy ; When will you put end to this madness?