This precisely is the thing that makes people loose faith in the fairness of the community. Some measure should be taken by the developers to automatically avoid such misuse.

The more lucrative the platform becomes there will be more attempts to game the system. I hope that genuine contributors are rewarded and I does not become a get rich quick race by using loopholes in reward

by writing good posts which are not single line questions.

I guess as the idea catches on and more contributors shift from other blogging sites like medium ect to steemit it will keep on going up over time even if there are a few small dips.

Is it still a good time to get in it for short term?

it is mentioned as point 8.

Someone needs to write an article to detail the situation for those of us who are not in on the sarcasm.