Thanks. I'm thinking long term. I think, in the long term, if you write the best post you have ever written, and the original place it was posted is someone else's blog you wont be so happy about that. I think the dolphins could get the same benefit by posting an intro to the author, an intro to the article and a link. It will still get upvoted a lot because of their followers. However, more people wil click and follow the author, and upvote their article and follow them. This means their reputation and followers increases. Also, @theoretical and others are already discussing the possibility of SD and SP rewards (maybe) continuing for longer than 24 hours or 31 days ... possibly for much longer. Now, lets say your featured article doesn't make much now, but in a month or two it is making more and more because people are telling their friends, it is getting found in Google, etc. What happens then? The deal probably was that you would be paid on that nice SD earned in the first 24 hours. Well, maybe the article made 1k and you are happy at first. Then, over the course of the next year it earns another 500, then 250, etc (though it would not necessarily go down). Now, you have missed out on that and also on the google traffic hitting your blog. It is not a good thing if you are thinking long term. Own your content.