So, you are new to Steemit and want to look, what others are making here?
Forget the trending page!
Never look at the Trending page
Why?
You will get the wrong impression, what you could be making in the beginning.
Let's take all main post payouts from 2018-02-02:
31821 posts
and now look at the ones with over 100 SBD payout:
254 posts
Yes that is 0.8% of all posts who did receive that much.
Do you think you are in the upper 1%?
Yes you will be, if you are rich, have your minions from YouTube/Facebook/etc. or just know a whale.
For all the others new to Steemit: Forget it!
Let's have a look at the graphic for that day:
You cannot see anything, except at the lower end.
Let's zoom in there, cut everything above 100SBD:
Still, not that much, go further in, cut everything above 10 SBD:
That's better, but to have a clearer final picture, cut everything above 1 SBD:
That is the place where most of us belong.
Below 1 SBD.
2500 posts with just 0.01 SBD payout
That is the reason, why I never go to the trending page.
It is just to damn frustrating.