This is also a bit of a problem though. People want to vote for the things they like, not what makes them money. So this is actually often working against onboarding and keeping new users engaged here.
Edit: Clearification. What I meant to imply here was that we need more engagement for users, that is not necessarily in of itself money related.
Ah, but you see, the system actively encourages voting on new authors and keeping them engaged here. I have mentioned this repeatedly, time and time again in my post. Voting for new authors is far more lucrative than voting for popular ones.
Many times that's true, but I still see a lot of room for improvement in that area. I'm gonna try to give some examples at a later date. (and then there's still the problem with that not really offsetting the issue I mentioned here)
Really !! Are you serious!