Hey, @steemitqa.

re: rewarded

In all honesty, I'm surprised it wasn't given some kind of ability to reward. I'd like to think that someone thought it would be best not to, though, since everything else we do here is based on upvotes or stake weight.

I know the reputation ranking is considered to be broken by most, but having resteems a part of that would make sense to me, if we were to ever find value in reps. Having the resteems dictate what's on trending makes more sense to me, too. We'd just have to have an answer for the alt account issue.

That is, if we're concerned with the 'purity' of the system, which is what I think we've been saying all along with people self-upvoting, bid botting or circle voting their way up there. Or even getting there the way most people curate (getting the most they can out of curation rather than whether the post should be on trending).

Since they fixed the way resteems show up in a feed (just once even if multiple people do it), resteems could be used so much more than they are. And if they were tied to reputation (be it curator, creator or both), maybe the curation rewards could be higher for the first person to resteem.

I don't know all the ramifications of any of that. I'm sure someone could point them out. I'd rather, though, if any of it is a good idea, or could work, how do we get there? :)