As nice as it is to receive these rewards, has there ever been a time that curation rewards actually worked. I mean, has there ever been a time when the incentive for rewards resulted in a well curated front page. I don't think there has. There has only been differing degrees of bad, when Reddit seems to do it much better with only non-transferable karma points as a reward (which are nearly completely worthless, but not entirely if you're willing to sell your account for a small sum to astroturfers).