I feel like that too at times. And what @ats-david said about bots is completely true. My most recent post had about 70 bots upvote it in the first ten minutes, creating a 1.50 payout. That's the second time it has happened to me in the last week. I feel as though they are using keywords to determine which posts they will vote for, because I don't have any particularly high payouts that they would be using as justification. The thing is, I spent a lot of time on the article and was trying to convey a message that I felt important, so I would have much preferred 1 upvote and 0.00 potential payout by someone that actually took the time to read the post and engaged me in conversation with a comment. Bots really are draining the life from this platform..