The sad thing is that I see alot of higher Rep people talking about steemit saying. "You get paid for delivering quality content!" But thats definetely not the case!

The only thing what you need is a follower with a great deal of steem power vote you up and get into trending because you have high payout in short term and you get to trending. Some other higher steempower accounts hit you a like. And you are in the game.

Also I see the higher rep person pooling together upvoting and linking eachother to keep the reward pool cluttered up at one place.

It has nothing to do with quality content but having high user voting you. Wich means centralization in an decentralized network..

If things like this dont improve. Steem will never work.