I still feel frustrated on occasion after all this time. I came across a girl today whose simple 2 minute post got a $100 payout. I then noticed that the same whale was upvoting all of her posts, so that she always got about a $80 to $100 payout even with her two sentence posts.
I didn't want to hate on her or say anything negative because some of her posts were actually quite good too. However, there is definitely a bit of nepotism going on and that's still something that I think we in general need to work on.