Getting new users onboard has been something I've been actively trying to do for the past bit, even before my account was approved, but I have heard from people new to this whole thing that it can be a bit disheartening to see some accounts consistently get "all the upboats" while they get nothing.
A lot has been written about social media strategies and the likes, and "how to gain a following" and such, but one rule still kinda stands out - if you are "low volume" posting of content it took a good bit to create, you will probably not attract a following as readily as people posting high volume content, due to how the "new" page works.
Still, I like to encourage people to just keep at it, keep up the interacting and sharing of stuff, and they will have growth and success :)
I don´t know if this is still on but, a few days ago I started to translate the FAQ to my native language and got to a part where it said that you get full rewards of your first 4 posts in any given 24 hours. If you post more than 4 entries in less than 24 hours then you will get less percentage of the total reward. I think this was created to avoid people spamming and to avoid the gap you are talking about, so people will choose posting quality over quantity. Again, Im not sure that policy is still working but I trully get your point. I guess we, as early users of the platform have to curate good content and ignore spam content, that is the only way we can stop from happening what you are talking about...