Take a look at top authors, then take a look at Trending/Hot categories. Very few authors are using the 100% Power Up option for posts, yet many of these authors talk about being committed to Steem for the long term. So why wouldn't they 100% their posts?
There is practically no incentive to 100% power up your posts on Steemit at this time.
Most of us know that for the Steem ecosystem, keeping Steem powered up is a good thing. It shows long term commitment to the future of the currency, reduces circulating currency and limits the ability to panic sell or dump large amounts of currency onto the market.
So why are there no incentives to 100% Power Up?
I'm not sure, I'll leave that to the developers to answer if they wish. I however would like to propose two ideas for incentivizing 100% posts.
Give powered up posts a better chance to land in a Trending or Hot category. Powered up posts could be given an extra multiplier that is factored in when calculating the score for Hot/Trending, let's say something like 1.25 giving an article a 25% better chance of trending.
Alternatively, you could give powered up posts a better payout through a multiplier as well. How about a 10-20% author payout bonus (applied after author/curator payouts are split)
Win/Win
Both of these provide an incentive to the author to use the Power Up feature which not only benefits them but also benefits the currency and community as a whole.
Would you like to see these types of incentives? Please consider a resteem and an upvote.