Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I'm not a professional photographer, so every earning I get from my photography posts is nice for me. I won't earn more when I'm going to post them on other platforms I think. But that might be different for other photographers.
And it can be annoying when low quality posts of users that get autovotes (or manual votes) from people with large stakes get many more rewards than my posts I worked hard for, but I choose not to worry too much about it since I cannot change this.
What I can change, and this is what I'm trying with this initiative is improve the amount and the quality of the feedback on photography blogs.
It is great that you're bringing this topic!
Well, I believe everything could change, if we point that as a problem. And it is actually a problem as those large votes on, as you say "low quality posts" drive good content creators away from the platform.
This could only happen if there are more people who post about and are genuinely interested in photography. This in terms will happen only when "ordinary" people see that rewards are relatively fair and more photo-enthusiasts are attracted here.
I onboarded several photographers on HIVE but I didn't trump loudly about it (contrary to what many do just to get prizes to doing that). Unfortunately their posts were cents to a couple of dollars and they gave up after different but short periods of time. Most of them are now gone. Not because they were expecting bug bucks but because they also thought rewards are reflection on how the community valuates their content.
Cheers! :)