Recently my observation is that even there are less upvotes in GEMS community. I am not tracking who upvotes what or how, but for last few days, I feel like, new content is not getting the reward they used to sometimes back.
In my personal opinion, if someone does write some decent posts ( could be anything but original), then the chain should reward him, till he achieves at least 500 hive . That way , they get inspired and get habituated. And by that time they would also have improved. Same authors getting more than 50$ votes does not add new users - again its all my personal opinion.
I'm aligned with your personal opinion in this matter. If you look at the list of top 10 people who have been rewarded the most, almost all of them are continuously making over $25 per post. Some are writing 4 such articles each and every day. To be honest, very few read those posts that read $25! The worst is, they get high rewards for the same posts on steemit as well!
Have you heard of upvote services running behind the scenes? They say, you delegate to me, I will upvote your posts. These are no less than bidbots.
And no one realizes that including communities and we are saying hive will cherish !!