Written with all due respect!

@themarkymark said this:
"Really you mean as they feel it should have been. There is no "should have been" here. I've seen a duct tape meme get voted $943, and good posts make less than $1".

There are many of us (hard workers with great quality) that see this regularly and it is a real bummer, as we get nowhere slowly. My first question: If the value of curation is dropped, how will it affect us?
And my second question: How can we get our work more exposure?

Please don't tell me via engagement, as we are regularly in the top 10 in the EL list.
The thing that hurts is that a post with blurred photos and badly written gets top dollar and a well detailed post with clear photos get $5.

Surely this needs to be sorted?

We are not in the powering down and selling stakes, as all that we want to do is to build a future for our work, but now after 3 years we are still moving at a snails pace. Now I know that even a snail will get there, but by that time I will be pushing up daisies.