replying to your other reply.
The aim for my plan is not to make spontaneous identification of new cateogories, but rather to allow the community to select specific high value specialist categories, fund it, and create a reasonable enhancement to posts in that category.
I have not specifically stated as I thought it was clear, but all posts in the specialist categories still go into the main steemit system and can get the upvotes via the normal method. The problem I am trying to solve is where new users arrive all excited, spend a lot of time creating valuable content and get $1.39, feel disappointed and leave. This robs the community of a source of good content and increases the dropout rate, both are problems that need to be fixed without needing to conflate other problems that also need to be fixed onto this one.
By having dozens or hundreds of specialist categories where a good post has its revenues enhanced via whatever flawed political process, is still better than $1.39 for a high value content