I think so too, but I also think that there should be a rhyme or reason for a dtube upvote. I would make my videos a lot better quality if I could be sure of a guaranteed upvote from dtube, but it is hard to justify quality when I only make a few cents.

That being said, some of the stuff that dtube upvotes at the rates they do are astounding. I see so many high quality videos on here go completely unnoticed, but then dtube giving bullshit videos ridiculous chunks of money, $100 upwards.

I started on here doing pretty high quality parodies. I planned to release a video each week of how to make a cosplay, and then using that cosplay in my videos. They literally took me the entire week to make and went completely unnoticed as well, so I had to give them up, as I couldn't justify the cost.

If dtube wants quality videos, that are appropriate for the audience already built in, they need to start encouraging and rewarding makers. Right now it is basically just a wasteland of selfie vlogs and cover songs. Yet the people they are importing from YouTube are like you said, just double posting, so no real new content is ever coming in. It is a mess that's going to take a while to fix.