No clue. But I advertised your post on Slack after you posted it here and now you have $6k. So I thought I answered the question you were asking in the post above. :)

I feel ya man. I stopped a scammer from getting $5,000+ by getting the whales to downvote the post after I researched it and determined it was a scam. The post I made about it made me $80. Someone else posted about me stopping the scammer and they made $5,500.

Months ago I made a post and meme about getting people to Steemit by using pretty women to advertise. The founders downvoted my post and took every bit of my rewards away and I was called a "misogynist" in another post for advertising Steemit using a woman in a bikini.

In the past few days a guy made a post saying Steemit post with women in bikini's earn the big bucks because the whales and other users want to see that more than some technical post. He made over $8,000 and was upvoted by both Founders like it was the greatest idea they'd heard since ... (insert your favorite cliche). Go figure.

I'm just trying to help man. You're not alone in your frustration with this system and the way people upvote. It seems those who do are rarely rewarded. Those who write about those who do get paid big rewards.

And to top it off the Founders voting habits are dysfunctional to say the least. They take money away from one person saying they don't agree with the idea then reward another for the same idea later. Or they upvote plagiarism giving the poster thousands while not rewarding those trying to fight the plagiarizers, but then reward someone who writes about the people fighting the plagiarizers.

Honestly I'm just going to post cat pictures for a while. They make far more money than spending hours a day trying to help out Steemit with advertising or fighting spam and scammers. :)