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RE: Explainer: Value Flows on Steem with SMTs [VIDEO]
2 people are going to read 30,000 articles a day? That should keep them busy.....and then only award 30 people out of 30,000 ? seems like the idea of "anybody can earn" goes out the window - you may as well take your chances on the whales ....
Good question @jorlauski. Let me give some further explanation on this one.
They don't need to read all the posts/comments to find the best ones. On the first step a simple bot filters off 99% of posts/comments (it is really not a difficult bot based on criteria: for example, it is clear that bot will need to filter short comments like "good post!" or posts having a couple of "f*ck" inside, or posts/comments with lots of misspellings, etc. - doubtfully look like a TOP-30 candidate).
Then humans manually read the remaining 1%. To be even more fair, human curators will also look through all the top posts/comments already chosen by the community (based on # of votes & comments).
Award 30 out of thousands? Yes, why not? Quality is the key. Share deep life-changing thoughts and ideas! If you really do your hard work every day, then one day you will get your $250 upvote, and after such an upvote you will get your Reputation boost, followers, money to "Promote" your further posts... Don't you think it is a good motivation to spend your time on quality content? In fact it is almost impossible to get even a $10 upvote from the wales today (until you are a whale too) - but this stops thousands of new users to dedicate their time to Steemit!
I already see new authors getting upvotes like that every day from curation guilds like @curie and contests like #openmic and it has created enough excitement for those new authors to keep them on the platform and contributing.
In my view, you're just talking about another curation guild. How is that any different than what we already have?
Although posting the top posts on the homepage would be a good idea.