It is just a bad misconception that must people have, they were told that in steemit you can make 1000 dollars in a post , and all they have to do is to invest some money in promoting their contents and then make it big in terms of profit. But as you said what I do frown at is how on earth can a introduce yourself post gets to the trending page of steemit. The major problem with steemit is that most posts that makes the trending page are mostly low quality post with no vital information's and also poor written skills couple with some useless dtube posts that does not last UpTo 3 minutes