Excellent post, thanks for the read!
We can only try to find an appropriate way to somehow recognize all of them and their creativity.
I think communities with curators more concentrated curators on them will do really good later on. We have to remember that the daily output of Steem is limited, but not SteemDollars, the more curators we have with more voting power, the wider they will be able to distribute the daily pool to reward efforts and creativity in most directions and topics.
I myself ever since I started my curation trail have been trying to vote on as many posts as possible and follow as many authors as possible, no matter the topics they post about or kind of photos they like to upload. I also tend to shift from some newcomers to others once I feel they have started to receive a good and constant posting rewards from automated votes and are therefor "oldtimers" already. It feels great to be able to help out newcomers cause you still remember how it was for yourself in the beginning and how the lack of curators might have given no visibility to your posts and demotivated you from posting more often. While at the same time being able to see all these other authors getting consistent rewards it makes it even worse at times if you are striking out.
At the same time though you have to read through a lot, either before you start trusting the author or have to try and make sure its not a plagiarist post. I like how well the system already works though considering how early on we are here still and with more people and active curators it will become much better. :)
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and share your valuable thoughts with us, @acidyo!
I couldn't agree more! My start was very tough. I wrote a lot of articles that didn't find any audience and even missed to do an introduction post (or at least I didn't tag it correctly), so my visibility was close to zero. It's a true pleasure now providing others a helping hand that seem to have the same issues, sharing knowledge and contributing to the network´s growth.
Then you look back and your own trouble in the beginning gets tiny and unimportant...:)
It's not the first time that I mention the following quote, but I think it perfectly fits in now.
Have a great weekend!