Good stuff man, I also like the tipping feature even though I haven´t used it as much as I would like to.
Its cool that we have this to go around the low creator rewards in some cases... like when a new user uploads a kickass video only to see curators profit from it, even if it comes from out pockets and not from the reward pool... we can still give something to those creators in these particular situations.

I like what you said about upvoting big in some cases, and once you get the rewards, you can tip the author of that video with some of the DTC that your VP mined with his/her content... smart!

My VP recharges at a slowish pace and Im letting it grow for a video Im uploading tomorrow or the next day so... a wee tip is going your way now.