We just need to figure out the following:

A) Whether we are a pay-to-play system, and need to reduce minnow rewards and encourage investing.

B) Or Whether we are at least somewhat of a curation-based system and we need to reward minnows for engagement and curation so as to increase userbase and create a mushpot for investors later.

C) Whether any rogue whales are in the curation-based camp, and could be rallied to put forth their investment into marketing for a platform that grows minnows with the purpose of attracting sponsors for ads, thus an ROI for them.

D) Whether we can incorporate a comment-based / engagement-based reward system into the UI on @PeakD (and other d'apps) without having to get a majority witnesses vote to agree to the concept of a curation-centric platform. A back door, if you will.

E) Whether option D ^^^ would be enough to effect an actual change in the ecosystem so as to increase users, so as to implement option C, or whether it would be immediately squashed by witnesses and whales in some other fashion of the code that removes rewards from comment-curation.

(I'd love an itemized response if possible)