Following trail is all about affordability, and hopefully if it can get support from some whales, like 10x1% per day would be negligible to them but mean a lot to the accounts. I would make the curation upvote significant enough for the accounts to motive them to maintain consistent quality as adding 2c makes no impact in the long run.
The problem I see with a lot of accounts is they churn out meh quality each day for a few cents, and some get lucky and get a whale vote or curated. Then there are others who churn out good/decent quality and aren't rewarded much more than the meh quality authors. It's the latter group that I'm interested in supporting.
Actually, the more I write about this, the more plausible it seems... I might start doing something for a change 🤗