I really like your "Our Picks" articles. I think that's a good initiative.

One thing you could consider is using LEN for large upvotes from achim or liotes.voter. Neoxian, for example, allows you to send NEOXAG to the neoxiancity voting bot and then it will give you a fairly significant upvote on your post(s). Neoxian himself actually runs contests for his 100% upvote with his hundreds of thousands of Hive. I think it's like a $50 upvote. He obviously gets half his vote in curation so it ends up being a win/win for both parties.

You could have people send LEN and then you could burn it. It would give another small use-case for the token. You'd have to do the math on the amounts. Obviously you would want the LEN number to be significantly less than the vote is worth.

You could also get some of these contests going on Discord. That would require some time commitment obviously, but you need to build a more vocal and active community and that's a good place to do it.

I'm sure Neoxian would be happy to engage with you if you want to learn more about what he's doing. He created a "discord" channel on Element. He doesn't like Discord.

Anyway, it seems to me you both have the ability to leverage your voting power to incentivize people to participate. And, as I said, unless you've got it all spoken for, it ends up being a win/win for the voter and the votee.

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