There are many ups and downs that you might have faced that you did not include here.

Yeah. This was actually just a fraction of things, but it still serve it's purpose. :)

It breaks the heart when you've put in an extra effort on a post and you earn less whereas you are seeing those that did not put in half effort compare to yours earn more.

That can be very discouraging. And that's also one of the reasons for the @asapers to exist. Even though we might not be able to boost the rewards to an amazing sky-high value right now, we're still striving to put the featured authors on the map so to speak.

We share the profits with the featured authors so they earn something extra meanwhile we give them more exposure and hopefully, that can and eventually will lead to more rewards and recognition with time.

Thank you very much for your comment, I appreciate it! :)