The last time I brought this up is when a whale was talking about how to distribute his gratitude more without being limited by the voting system.
I brought up the method of contributing directly to the author and I got my first down-vote ever. No good deed goes unpunished I guess.
But that did not stop me from doing it on my own starting last night. Right now, I only have a little over a cent of SBD's. I wait until I have a bit more to reward the author of a quality post.

Steem on,
Mike