I see.
Well, I see it also as a responsibility of users with a higher stake to take care that the reward pool is fairly distributed. Often the very same authors make it into the trending posts as they are well connected and whales typically don´t take the time to scout for good content outside of their "usual suspects". In that case a relatively average post with many, but rather low-quality pics got >100$ in upvotes.
I explained it also to the author and she understood it.