That's very kind of you to say @gra. The team works exceptionally hard and is only minimally rewarded for those efforts (we do what we can, but we must also consider fairness to everyone else in the community). Over time, the group will continue to grow, and with that so too will our voting trail, and capacity to help more content creators get rewarded.

In the long run, it is my hope that our efforts will lead to a big enough stake (steem power) being held by the content creators of today, such that future content can be curated directly by the community itself. IE People will be able to get content trending all on their own, and that content can be supported.

We have some additional plans for implementation of an SMT relating to the steemSTEM project, which should hopefully allow us to further facilitate the generation of a community which can support itself with regards to STEM content. Where excellent content creators will have the SMT stake, to effectively distribute that new token to other high quality STEM content creators. More on that in an upcoming SteemSTEM update post though.