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Not exactly what I have in mind, because the top posts sorted there are already scoring money:

Reputation Post Last Voted
9,505 @the-alien/we-have-competition-so-what
$552.5 - 287 votes - posted 5 hours ago 4 minutes ago
7,594 @sirwinchester/captured-moments-3-every-snapshot-has-a-story
$504.9 - 272 votes - posted 6 hours ago 21 minutes ago
6,924 @serejandmyself/the-amazing-world-of-slavic-folklore-and-mythology-original-haiku
$550.9 - 197 votes - posted 8 hours ago 6 minutes ago
6,501 @msgivings/abortion-my-body-my-choice
$891.5 - 258 votes - posted 6 hours ago an hour ago
6,259 @calaber24p/don-t-waste-your-time-and-potential-just-waiting-for-things-to-come
$491.9 - 229 votes - posted 3 hours ago 20 minutes ago
6,080 @cass/follow-join-my-blog-steem-blog-badges-playground-part-i
$141.3 - 216 votes - posted 4 hours ago an hour ago
5,876 @knozaki2015/spotted-limited-edition-products
$524.2 - 172 votes - posted 2 hours ago 30 minutes ago

The concept is to find the undervalued. If you tweak the feed to compute it differently you should be able to make it work.

Not always. Right now, for instance, the payouts and reputation are out of sync.

Still, only one of these is severely underpaid at 2$.

This tool is exactly what your proposal #2 is about.

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