I will tell you my own experience. When I signed up for Steemit, I started visiting different communities and analyzing what content was supported here. Of course, I was interested in those posts that had the most profit. So I found authors like udibekwe, mukada and a few others I don't remember. Their posts are complete shit, but they get good money. We all know that they just use bid bots, but at the time I didn't know they existed. My logical conclusion was to publish as many shitty posts as possible to earn more. Only later did I realize that quality is also valued on this platform.