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What do you mean, is it quality? Everything has quality, it is a question of degree. =)

But yes, quality or not, whales, as they call them here, will keep trending, and newcomers will stay in the shadows. Some will give up, some will hopefully persevere. I am planning to give it a couple of months before I consider writing more than short opinion pieces and summaries of academic articles. I mean, I personally want a bit more discussion going after putting hours into reading and summarizing an interesting academic paper. Seeing 5-10 views breaks my heart. Literally. =(

Yeap, I meant it in respect to the degree of quality which might be illusive.

I had the same feeling in the beginning. I would advice you not to waste your time. I spend countless hours in making detailed posts and I was getting pennies. Focus on commenting first, build a follow up and then write quality posts.