If you are doing something for a reward, you are probably doing it wrong. Steemit just needs more people. I find it that most of the blogs I see in my feed or on trending/new/hot/promoted pages are uninteresting. Sometimes I find more interesting content on my Facebook feed than here, but I think this is mostly due to me not following right users or there is just not enough people with similiar interests. Maybe what steemit needs is another section that sorts the blogs by "views" or "retension time" or something I don't know but as it is I don't spend too much time on here.