Well, you just explained how people make more money than I do. Although it is too early to say if the fork made a difference. People will need to think more whom they up vote. Of course it can be that my posts just suck and people don't want to read them, but my impression is that crappy posts are easy to write, and you can push many of them out and maybe 1/10 is a hit and makes you a few bucks. But when you go for quality with a low reputation score, people aren't too inclined to read what you want to post.

Anyway, what I want to say with this is, that it comes down to consistent quality in the end. At least that is what I believe, and am therefore continuing with that. :)