I appreciate the effort and I think that keeping an open mind will help the community grow in the long run. The idea of gamification is a nice one and I think that once we start more ideas will come up. About the idea of the reports from the curators, it can be done but I am not sure it will help addressing the complaints. I think the issue is that we are being fair but some users want equal votes instead. Treating everyone fairly is different than treating everyone equally. If we flatten the rewards too much to make everyone equal we risk of over-rewarding mediocre posts and discouraging people that actually spent hours doing research and writing good and engaging content. About the engagement, I think we need to create the right user-base. Communities are made by users that share the same values, we need more users that actually are involved in science so professors, scientists, post-docs, students..so we should focus on doing things that would provide value to them and in doing so we also disseminate fact-based knowledge.
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Thanks for the feedback. I am all in line with you for what concerns curation: Fairness = yes; equality = no. I do not know whether the reports will help (I guess there is only one way to know: trying it), and probably the complaint will become different. But at least they will address the current (justified) complaints.