I've used the same metaphor myself, Citizen. Handcrafting a lottery ticket on finest parchment, only to have to tear it up.

I was racking up 2 or 3 boosts per month from August through to January, then it went flat. Same pubs, same type of content - some not getting nommed, others being knocked back by Curation despite previous similar but weaker stories having got the nod.

My concern isn't, though, so much the difficulty of getting boosts, as the ineffectiveness of the boosts themselves beyond the 2-week window. You have maybe 400 reads of an article, hundreds of people clapping and dozens commenting. But once the boost dies down, that has no knock-on effect via the regular distribution algo for similar pieces.

What is the point?