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What if the content is interesting?

Why would top-quality content makers pay whales/dolphins?

I've seen several top-quality content makers get little rewards. See @sigmajin 's posts.
(recently they've been increasingly upvoted but still) There are several similar examples.
Reason is usually that they post at low-traffic hours, or poorly market their content.
Or there may just be newbies that don't want to build an account from scratch

Good point. But I think low quality content will be most prominent on those paid whale lists.

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