Btw post quality has maybe 1% to do with the votes you get. Most importantly it's the connections you make (both positive and negative). Also, your own stake but that's just an easier way to increase your positive connections and make it more difficult to be affected by negative connections.

A new or unknown user could write the next Lord of the Rings in here and they would get barely any votes. Someone with good connections posts a picture of their lunch and they get $50.