Hopefully only going up from here on out!
Something for readers to keep in mind is that we do have quite a lot of restrictions, not just certain niches/genres that we won't curate, but also to not reward the same authors too much and often or if they already are well rewarded from other curators. On top of that when the price of Hive is too high we try to tone it down a bit so the rewards are a bit more realistic and similar when price is lower we try to vote them a bit higher.
Some of the great things that come off of manual curation and having many unique eyes and tools handy to help is that you can be quite flexible and fair towards distribution.