The battle on quality in regards to Hive content is a neverending war. It was supposed to be a social media platform and it ended up being a crypto rewards-based blogging site primarily, where politics do matter. Yes, you read that right, politics...
We need such posts as his, once in a while, because these ones are opening some wounds of Hive and the DPOS. There's always going to be disagreement about how rewards are distributed by curators and there are always gonna be divergences between individual views on what "a quality post" is and how much rewards one deserves...
Well, quality is in the eyes of the beholder, or better said, it springs from politics. Yes, Hive is not strange to politics... And these politics and their politicians(large stakeholders) decide what quality should look like on Hive and how much that should be rewarded.
I read through the comments on the above-mentioned post and at some point, someone(I forgot who) was mentioning that $100 photography posts are actually overpaid(90% of them, the man said). Well, half of the trending page is full of such posts. These ones are pleasing to the eye. It's what made social media a thing... Getting into people's lives, and living with them through the pics they share with us is somehow intriguing and appealing...
As a curator, you can't go wrong with upvoting photography posts. Tackling covid, Illuminati, Monsanto, crooked banking, and other stuff that's considered "conspiracy theories" will send you into a territory full of subjectivity and that's why, although such types of posts require much more work than photography ones, won't earn you much as a content creator.
Don't go ballistic about photo posts, though, cuz you're gonna get disappointed. When it comes to "earning rewards" it's not that much about quality, as it is about politics. It matters A LOT who posts these photos and not that much how good or pleasing to the eyes these are.
There are users throwing liketu posts around that earn a minimum $50 in rewards and there are other users having pretty similar liketu posts that hardly earn $10 in rewards. Trust me, it is indeed about politics... Yeah, I know I sound like a broken drum already, but that's the harsh truth. When it comes to rewards it doesn't matter that much what you're putting to the table as it matters who's putting the merchandise on the table.
The way I see it we're like in a big open market here. There are the curators, who are the buyers, and then there are content creators that are the sellers of the merchandise that's "bought by the curators". I personally have never ever bought vegetables from "that one person from the market I can't stand", no matter how appealing those looked. That's the politics I'm pointing at.
Ten different content creators can have similar types of posts and the rewards collected by those posts will warry a lot. I'm posting my time spent at dinner someday on liketu and some other user is posting a bunch of photos from the supermarket, I get $10 in rewards and she gets $50...
It's basically the same type of shitposting, but the politics are different. We are part of "different circles".
The quality of posts on Hive and the rewards distribution is a stream of inspiration for content creators that is never gonna dry up. Subjectivity is part of our DNA, it's what makes us humans... There's always gonna be a fight on that and we will never come to a common ground on that.
You have to be that someone "to earn that much". There's no equality in here, we can't even talk of that and there will never be. That doesn't mean that you should just leave Hive cuz some user is earning more than you on basically the same type of content. Hive has somehow become a society and as in real society certain individuals will get into some positions while others will have to settle with "what's left". Plain and simple...
Oh, I almost forgot, on that post of Edicted, in the comments section 
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian