I am new myself and from what I have seen I have really wondered for sure. I see effort put into new posts and they get no attention what so ever and are lucky to get 1 up vote. Then I will see someone post a picture of a slice of cheese pizza and make $10 or more bucks. I see people that steem a video off YT and make money as well, off 2 sec of work. I put together a blog the other day that took hours and not a soul even bothered with it. Dont know if I should keep bothering or not.