RE: Diversifying the Steemit User Base with New Featured Author Post - What do you think?
I do agree with @sigmajin that would be fairest, but others are doing blog promotions. There is a better monetary response to one per blog promotions like that what @gavet , @jacor , or @dragonslayer109 do. It's easier for promoted users get on their feet that way.
As long as you are honest with your intentions and work, when you promote new values as you said you would, it should not bring bad feelings.
For example, a few days ago @dragonslayer109 started promoting in his gems, some posts that got over 50 $ and users with a big following before he posted his gems, that way I lost some respect for his work. Reasons for that may be different, but I think that he lost his first principles once he got rich, or maybe bots started following his upvotes, or he promoted those in chat first, but nevermind, this is one example of bad feelings by me.
It's like with politicians, if u stand behind your words, and bring value to people they will love you.
@leksimus, FYI @dragonslayer109 doesn't share rewards for the Hidden Gem post. They do however for their Featured Author. If you want to up-vote a Hidden Gem post that does share all the SBD, look at @biophil
I do follow @biophil, and sincerely appreciate people that are finding true lost gems (its hard job manually) and I think they should be rewarded as quality lost content should be rewarded too. I also appreciate @dragonslayer109 efforts but when he started posting post from well-known users with 50$+ payouts it seemed to me he is not doing what he was doing at the start, or what is promised by name of hidden gems. It feels insincere, and that is what could make one's followers feel cheated or betrayed.