In my opinion, I would incentivize curation more. Give each team member all the curation rewards for the posts they find. So, it would work on a commision type model. The more high-quality posts you find, the more you get paid. This then gives each team member an option to either create more posts or curate more. You might find some members of the team will end up curating full time, if, it is incentivised enough.
I think that every team members own posts should go through the same scrutiny and protocol that our posts go through in order to maintain a quality standard. The shortfall, due to lack of curie vote, could be made up through a higher 'limit' vote from steemstem.
One must also understand that the nature of being a curator of such a large community already brings a lot of attention to their blogs, which is a bonus in and of itself.
You may ask; how do we grow the steemstem account, if, all the curation rewards are distributed as commision?
Well, you already feed it through the news-letters and distilled posts. As the founders, yourself and JTM may consider delegating most of your personal steem power to the steemstem account. Every owner has to put money back into the business for it to grow. An increased Steemstem account, would improve all the curators commisions and keep them happy.
Finally, you could incentivise delegation. Every delegated amount to steemstem, over 1000sp, for example, would get one of their upvoted posts re-steemed by the steemstem account per week. This would give the donator exposure in return for their contribution.
So, to re-iterate this last point.
In order to get advertising from steemstem you must:
- Produce a post for steemstem
- Your post must meet quality standards for an upvote
- You must be an investor
Just to let you know I finally read your comment. I won't answer in details, as details are coming very soon. But in short, curation is not the real problem. Engagement is. We will actually tackle both ^^
Finally read this too. Quite detailed I must say. I will wait for detailed answer from lemouth