Have you visited recently Steemit? Because every time I do, it seems to me that those who are making good money are application developers and people who already have enough money to delegate and making even more money. Most of them rely on Tipu and Nutbox. And you see some accounts posting the same quality posts earning $100 per post, every day. While others writing some amazing posts, earn pennies, sometimes nothing. Some of them even post stock photos as their own, or at least not mentioning the source. Here are two good examples: https://steemit.com/@mukada https://steemit.com/@udibekwe 

Both of them get huge upvotes from Tipu and Nutbox and usually prefer communities like Stock Photos. But there are many others. I reported some of them, but no action was taken. A few days ago reported a dozen comments under a post all copying each other and just changing a couple of words. Again, no penalty whatsoever.  And finally many of them have stopped posting on the blog page but instead prefer certain communities. I'm not sure why, expose, some kind of special deal with the community manager and curators or just trying to fly under the radar.

https://steemit.com/@milaoz/posts https://steemit.com/@lyubovbar/posts https://steemit.com/@royw https://steemit.com/@toukirahmed02/posts https://steemit.com/@panconcajeta/posts https://steemit.com/@bhaiaslam/posts https://steemit.com/@lyubovbar/posts https://steemit.com/@afriart