First off, thanks for commenting (and for your awesome upvote(s) - is it appropriate to thank someone for upvoting? I dunno. I'm doing it.).
I hear ya.
My rational mind agrees totally, and knows that this is just the way things are. With a human curators there are always going to be reasons that votes and payouts don't happen. These are people, with lives and problems and hopes and dreams and little kittens that meow in the night and all the rest of it.
I suppose it can be difficult to accept the chaos, and the general lack of control, sometimes. The human mind wants to say "I totally created this and can change it!"
Anyway, I want to thank you again, this time on behalf of all the people you curate. It means a lot to us. And I'm pretty excited that you actually read my posts and actually enjoy them (can I say that? I'm saying it).