Hi @axeman,
You and community has been doing great since so many years and all of us know this is getting better everyday. The contests you are conducting are so good to have. And it's no shame that our community through these contests by you also getting good reputation, earnings too. Most of the time these contest posts are in our trending list. So I would suggest you two things to you as a return favour for the contests who have been working hard to make posts. As the number of members increasing day by day, it is so hard to get attention for the creations made by creators like me. Yes there are nomination posts curation trail but these are not being enough to support us. so I would suggest you to give a good curation at least for the best three posts in every contests. And increasing the amount of price also be appreciated . Otherwise it is feels like there isn't enough support from the community team in proportion to the same we give to you. I mean do like @art-venture 's artist selection and curation or like @aceh-team who's supporting every team members so good. Please take it serious and give some help for our hard work. Otherwise it will lead so many of us for going for the refraining of upvotes like paidupvotes. I hope many members have this same thing in their mind too. 

Please keep this to your discussion panel or whatever it is... 
I am telling this to you because you daily watching you and your contests meke you feels like our nearest Friend in this community.