Excellent post! I was just feeling discouraged by this and splitting my time between author and curator to try and build. Sadly, I still have some really awesome unread posts that I worked really hard on and are beneficial to everyone.
I was thinking, what if the system could bump posts that get attention? An upvote or comment moves it up a bit. Or, some kind of shuffling system? I'm not to techie, so not sure how those ideas would work. resteeming this!
By bump posts, you mean on your profile where all the posts are listed? If you mean that then it might be good for a few but then post payouts are given in a week so it will be a logical mess.
In the newsfeed area, meaning they would cycle back up towards the top somehow. But yeah, I understand how this could be messy with the payout system. They just seem to get buried pretty quickly.