flatten payouts

Without a doubt needs to be done. Every 10k post I see makes me die inside. Practically no post that has had a huge payout has been worth 10k to the community. Left to their own devices, no doubt in part due to not understanding very well where the money is coming from, the users inflate posts past their reasonable value.

Frankly, most of these posts in the top 10 of trending should be getting at most half of what they are. Not just because they don't bring that level of value, but because we know there are many other undiscovered posts that are just as worthy.

The roles could be flipped and the trending topic could be floundering just as likely as that unseen post is. So ideally if they are both equally worthy, they should split the difference of their values, and this determines how high of a payout either of them would get (in this perfect payout situation only of course).

And absolutely we need to "fix", and at least clarify in the meantime, the role of the flag/downvote we currently have, has. Even well-seasoned users disagree on its use. The new users are completely confused.

Great discussion, everyone.