thanks for your comment.. yes, funnily enough when i started ecoTrain that is exactly what we did. I had four or five VIPs as we called them, including me, who bought quite some Steem ( i had around $5,000 USD worth) and between us all we had a fair bit.. and we used that to reward our passengers.. of course back then the upvotes from us all were only worth one or two dollars so it was never really enough to do much at all.. then as the Steem price dumped it became even less!
lets see how it goes.. ive reached out to a few people now to see if we can get a bit of curation help.. that at least would take the pressure off me.. and allow things to continue.