I am one of the newest members in the DCooperation community.
I think that we should not focus on the rewards, but on creating a real community. This is the main problem with the Steem blockchain. Almost everyone is focusing on the rewards (in a selfish, greedy way by focusing only on their own blog posts), but not on caring about other people's blog posts, and being social, using the platform manually, naturally. By the way, most of those $100 was probably bot boosted, and not manual upvotes. Posts with huge payouts are usually bot boosted.