depends of course on the bot that you use, but if you're getting 1.74 worth of upvotes, you should not be paying 1.74SBD. you would be paying more like 0.6-0.7SBD.
That's why you think my math is wrong.
And yes - the problem is absolutely with visibility. one of the first things I noticed when I came here is how damn hard it is to find content. They should have a similar structure to reddit.
Even I agree that it is very hard to find a content here and curate. In that aspect the platform should improve a lot.