Great point, Kenny!
Hmmmm. I will think on it. Since they are getting exposure (and with that more clicks/follows/upvotes--more income) from the blog itself, I may not also do the SBD rewards thing just yet. But I like the idea, and I want to do some king of reward sharing thing with posts in the future anyway, in one form or another.
I will check out those spotlights.
Ya, I think you are offering them plenty of value from the work you are doing to get them exposure...they need to put in the work after that to create great content to take advantage of you bringing them a larger audience.
Yea, I'm in the list and I still think that there is no need to split the rewards. To my mind it's necessary when somebody is featuring a single article, like putting the whole text out there. In other cases I think the exposure is a fair "payment" enough. And it doesn't matter that usually the post with the "top list" gets more likes than featured posts. I believe it's more because the author who is featuring has his or her own follow and not everyone who would like upvote him/her would bother to also upvote the featured articles, but someone will, and that's exposure!
@dollarvigilante
Thank you, I agree, actually. I personally don't think I really need someone throwing money at me while also putting my content out there without my asking them to.
I'd feel honored enough that they took the time already to give me a mention.
Just wanted to bring the conversation that's going on right now to your attention, I know you're going to go about it in a good way :-)
Like @dollarvigilante said, I think the value of exposure is high enough. You should be able to keep the SBD reward for putting the work into the blog since that has value too.