I know that feeling of disproportional votes 🤣 Sometimes, a post that I put up in one hour, gets SO much more votes than the one that I spend days preparing. And no idea why. Sometimes it's an accelerator, like I post something that gets the attention of big players e.g. in Splinterlands, and an upvote of them attracts more upvotes of others.
I still do both. Even if I don't get as much dopamine and HIVE for my great posts, I will still put in the time - I'm not here for the money, but to express myself. I don't want to learn the most efficient way of marketing my posts and exploit the system, but become in and of itself better at making them. And who knows - maybe my fast posts get that attention because the Hive-Verse is balancing things out, and if I don't put in the effort, neither posts would get attention 😅
Yeah, it's kind of nice not having to worry about chasing after all the curation rewards like we used to have to. Ultimately, it's probably best just to plug along as usual and take whatever comes.
That's what I think. I'm usually more successful when I don't care about being successful. But that's spontaneous, and nothing I can control 😅