This idea of ranking could be added as one of the members of the list 'hot', 'trending', etc. 'most-voted' would be a good name.
@l0k1 Actually that is a good idea - and using an appropriate name that explains that it is vote based would help.
Perhaps also having some kind of reputation ranking of the votes would be useful - this would need to be based on some kind of percentage based mean. It would need a suitable name - I was thinking "Voter Ranking Index" but that is terrible!
Regarding payouts, I think they should show more information, not less. The estimated current value, plus the curator share/author share, and perhaps even the SP and SBD that could be awarded.
That could work too. I don't think people like hiding information and the other thing is even if it was hidden people could just use a tool to add it back in from the blockchain - I'm sure someone could just create a browser extension to do it. I didn't think of that until now.