Providing, obviously, every post gets rewarded immediately upon being posted.
This way, people can just post and post and post and post. The dark side of steemit will handle the quantifying effects of quality with down voting. Up voting secures automatic rewards on all posts, too many down votes, rewards are dropped. Additionally, Dolphin and Whale accounts can smash anything that ends up hot and trending due to all algorithm cheats in the system with their heavy down votes.