Alright! Sending at least part of reward as SP will #spreadthepower, thus increasing the decentralization of SP, which is very beneficial for the functioning of Steemit, great that you agree with it.
While the featured posts are great as far as authors are concerned, if the SP stays in few hands, it will slow the decentralization of SP, and thus perpetuate the whale hunting. So we need more people to support that!
Hi, I am trying to send 100% of reward as SP, but most of the featured authors, really need the money to pay for food etc. So with authors whom have been featured more than once, we worked out that they receive 70% in sbd and 30% in steempower
Yeah, I can relate to that. :-) Still, as someone who'd like to succed on their own, I've decided against going the featured author route, and concentrate on other projects, like helping people with translations. It does bring some money, perhaps not as much as a featured post does, but the exposure is great! About couple more followers and I'll hit my 1st hundred. While some of them are people that added everyone and their grandmother, and perhaps even some bots maybe, it is still a significant milestone. :-)
Luckily I can manage without relying on the steemit payouts, and try to play the long game.
good to hear that you found your own way to success and helping the community !
I wouldn't call it success yet, as there is no returns on the effort so far, but maybe in a month or couple. Thing is I probably better do some posts of my own as well, to at least measure if there are any returns via that avenue.