The hive communities have been trained to produce and vote up bare minimum thin content and relationships determine who get the rewards not quality. It’s not as bad as steem where a stolen graph and buzzword bingo fill in the blank template would make $1,000 but still severely gamed.
I spend around $80/mo on Patreon but I can’t think of any authors on hive I’d back in that way.
It's probably due to lack of competition rather than just the flaws with dpos voting. Communities should help with that long term.
I hope so.
One thing that I’ve thought might improve the overall quality of content here would be long term rewards rather than capped at a week.
Another could be advertising with revenue share.
Most definitely, I brought this up in a post I made a couple weeks ago where I discuss adrevenue. Not many put in the effort knowing there's a possible cap that they can't surpass, not many think of the long term rewards and potential stake can give you.