You are right to want to keep the top quality posts on your blog, but I also think of Steem as a social network so we should be able to share our thoughts in small but yet valuable articles while maintaining the relationships with others. You are free to chose what you want to share, as this is what makes this place a free platform and the actual manifestation of no-censorship and if you want to keep on posting only the top quality articles that is fine and they should get a lot of visibility and this is where curation makes sense, and the reader's will to push your quality content up from the whole bunch of plain posts and even resteem yours (this is more in an ideal world, but I hope it will become a reality). As you pointed out, you will get even more followers, because they may accidentally find your good quality posts by visiting your profile after reading one short but yet interesting post! 3000 followers, here they come :D
Yeah, sending random prizes to people will be quite interesting but also costly so I don't think that anybody will do that very soon, unless it is between their own accounts.
When is your birthday, if you are okay sharing this on the blockchain? I know it is not okay so maybe skip this question, never mind, I am such a child. By the way, thank you for your upvote, you are a kind person supporting minnows, but you already know that!
Birthday....LOL I am so old I don't have birthdays anymore. Just days when I am still alive.
I can't believe this comment, best so ever :)) I am happy to be here and talk with you then! Just keep yourself positive, you should enjoy the fact that you have a son and you can spend time with him!