Hey there - I just thought - as I was called-out personally- i have to reply - might be a mistake but let us discuss. I think it is indeed a good point you raise the discussion if certain posts are really worth over 300 or 500$ - that is something a lot people new to Steemit are interested in. I certainly agree maybe some posts are not worth 300$ - some might be worth more. On the trending page some post over 2,000$ might be worth only 50$ or 5$ -maybe even less.

Just let me say i was really surprised to see my name written here - wow, makes me kind of Celeb - was not sure first if i shall be shocked or flattered to be considered a Steemtrail owner or sth like that or even a big earner.

I can only speak for myself (well guess what I would outline here) - I fully support Steemtrail, different trails support different content - we up vote and resteem posts. Steemians that get these votes certainly benefit from higher rewards - the people like me curating that also earn rewards fro investing some hours actually doing it - well may it be 500$ a day if you are good or 100$ if you are less active, some even earn only 5$ a day. Is that too much @berniesanders - what daily rate are you charging your clients? Pretty sure at least 2,000 a day so $250 per hour so what is the issue? If I spend 5 hours a day searching posts, qualify them, up vote / esteem - don't you think at least $250 a day is a fair rewards? From a community perspective I know people hate it or love it and there will always be different opinions. But i am confident it is an approach that helps certain topics and newbies in the relevant fields.

Knowing I should have better said nothing you can now attack me - I am here - i am a german guy that started this with two pillars: 1 - help the German community to earn maybe more that 50 cents for a post and increase it to 10 or even 20$; 2 - to earn something for additional work i do here on Steemit.
In the post it is asked I would owe the community an answer - not sure what you mean and if my comment here answers this. Re transferring rewards to Polo oh well - I powered every single rewards here until i started this trail - maybe one could also change some to other coins, is that fair or not? Has no one here taken any rewards out of steem? I have never done a power down, why should I? I believe in this steemit community. Long comment - enough for today - I need to care of the family now. It is late here.

To summarise - I think we should get on a discussion what post is worth what and why? The rest I outlined above, thanks for listening - I hope she of it makes sense.