Firstly, thanks for such a detailed response. I certainly wasn't aware of the amount of upvotes that are being paid for at the upper end of the "earning scale". I don't really see the point of people paying for the upvotes to convert their fiat to steem, but I wonder if there is an element of thinking that the higher each post looks to be more people are likely to vote on it, I guess this is where the curation rewards come in.

Personally, I think it would be better to reward someone with a small following / upvote count as each vote has more weight there than being one of 300 people upvoting a post.

I certainly don't think that you write badly though and think your content is definitely higher than what I coined as category 3 originally.