Therein lies the problem.

A large part of the problem lies in people being more concerned about finding the "formula" for a profitable post than just creating quality content (of many kinds) and allowing that to become profitable. So we end up with a song of one note... which will (sadly) lead us in the direction of video stores in their early days... EVERYone wanted to open a video store because they were "hot," but ultimately, not that many people actually needed videos... so there was a wave of bankruptcies.

Human greed. It's what's for dinner... even here.

The more pressing problem is that it's short sighted. It's a form of "killing the goose that's laying golden eggs." Get rich now, and to hell with the future. If you forget the short term approach for a bit... what do we want? A place where we can still publish and get rewarded, 5, 8, 10 years from now? If that's the case, better start publishing things that'll be appealing in the long run... and will cause a random web surfer five years from now to look at our content and think "Wow! That's a GREAT community with awesome content! I want to be part of that!"