THIS. So much more of THIS please.

You have smashed the nail on the head here. The downsides of this platform you bring up are all the reasons why I stopped posting here last year.

As for me, I have a goal to create at least one high quality post every day. It takes me several hours per post including research, marketing my post on Reddit/Twitter/Discord etc. Before I publish a post, I reread it and ask myself, "is this something that a newsworthy website would consider acceptable content"? Or if it's a blog post, I ask myself, "Is there a story line here, could I be expressing myself better, am I being as honest as possible here?".

The reward I get for posting content is my pride in seeing "@hooked2thechain" above content which I produce. Big upvotes are nice but I'm not here to waste my time or anyone else's writing shitty posts. I've got better things than that to do with my time.