Absolutely pay per word is just a metric - and I wouldn't expect to be paid more for more words - good language, is of course, efficient language - to get your point across as succinctly as possible. But if I have a critique of a painting, I am not going to write fourteen different posts critiquing the painting by 512x512 pixel tiles.

There are clearly some users on the chain who consistently post low effort shit posts and get high rewards. This isn't their fault - it is the fault of curators, and people who are too afraid to downvote content within the seven day window.

A downvote should never be seen as a personal attack, but instead as an altruistic move to give everyone else on the chain who has "skin in the game" (a post up for reward) slightly more, and that specific post slightly less.