TL;DR : It's a voting bonanza out there.
But perhaps you are not part of the party, yet. Maybe your amazing posts are not getting noticed. You keep making amazing posts and time after time they get just a few cents in rewards.
Well, I am inviting you to the party right now.
But first, you have to ask yourself if there is any underlying reason for your posts to not get the attention you believe they posts should?
I know for a fact that there's a lot of whales who are not voting on Steemians who left during the low season, and they are focusing in curating those Steemians who kept posting on a regular basis over the past months. The curation bots (formerly know as bid bots) are spreading their millions of Steem power among a lot of people, but mostly established authors or posts that get curated by curation guilds. There's only so much that curation guilds can do and their reach is kind of short. It's known that almost nobody votes on posts from steemians who used to be abusers of some type - although some users manage to get rid of the bad rep.
But maybe, just maybe, your posts aren't gettin the attention you want because they lack that little sometihng that curation groups look for, or perhaps your content needs a small tweak here and there for people to vote on it.
So here I am, with my short experience curating offering you this:
If you feel like you are making High Quality content and still not getting rewarded, leave a short text on the comment section describing what you post about. I'll go to your profile and give you some suggestions to make your posts top notch. After that, if your content is indeed underrewarded I'll write your name down for when starts whitelisting again, which will be very soon.
Being on the whitelist means we will start following you thus enhancing your chances of getting manually curated by us.
If you know of some people who are making amazing content and are not getting noticed, feel free to drop their name and a small description of their content and i'll check it out.
Please, do not drop names that are getting support on their posts. Support means that some of their posts cross the $3 mark. I'm looking for those authors who are making incredible posts and are getting less than $1 on them on a regular basis