Yeah man I agree with the whole upvoting thing. I see it all of the time, I'll go to check out a post and I see that 30 seconds after the initial post people start commenting.

Quick suggestion - I, too haven't really done much in regards to payouts (yet!) But I've noticed that here, and in my day-to-day marketing implementations I've advised our copyrighters to follow a few simple techniques:

-Styling the post with HTML tags  

Like this

also has an impact on user expereince

Here's a link to a page that shows a quick guide on adding a tag to center some text