We attempted a little experiment to help reward authors for their posts. There is a lot of quality post being overlooked. We also think, if done right, it could work. Me and my wife paid all the authors we featured $5 Steem Dollars up front. Then we would hope that others would up vote their content for a second award. And lastly we would provide all the income from the post, minus the steem power because we could not, split between the authors for a third reward. (A possibility of three different rewards to these authors)

It did not work out and the Steemit Community did not want to reward the authors. We also tracked the up votes and most only received a few after the feature. We will attempt it again after the website for FreeSteem is completed.