I opted out of ned's votes really early on, by criticizing how those curators work. They are called the 'guilds' and there seem to be a few of them.

And you came to the same conclusion like I did.
They reward the same lame efforts frequently.
Some pictures, some text ... like a little essay for school.

Sadly, you already named the whales that would read your posts - the rest simply don't 'have the time to read all posts' and therefore simply don't.

Good luck !

and

Respect