I'm more in the manual curator side. In fact I'm an active curator for a couple of projects here. Its hardest, difficulter, but in an utopic word with a 50/50 curators and autors and no bid-bots, promotion should not be neccesary because the good curation work. If your post is good, you will be pay for it.

Beside that... I often thing in if my opinion is to much dreamer and romantic. Anyway, I'm with you @therealwolf, we need work toguether, embrace our difference because we want to go into the same Moon in the same rocket.