Hey, thanks for the kind words!

Don't worry about the payment thing -- I'm very new to this platform too. I don't really have any idea how the economy of it works yet, but hoping to get more clarity as time goes on. Maybe in the future there will be a "tipping" option for posts that will allow people to do something similar to what you just mentioned My payout has dropped over time (oddly enough) because apparently people's upvotes get diluted depending on how many times they click on the button too, which is kind of a strange thing. I still have no idea how it works.

My hope is to try to make high quality content that will slowly accrue value over time so I'm taking the long view on it. Hope that the post will stay relevant for quite some time since I'm not very good at following current events. :)