Probably. And thank you for pointing that out @robinhaney. That leads to another question: Can anyone succeed on good content alone? Sure, we can say, "Bring your blog to this platform and get paid," but that makes it sound easy. It's just a hook, without giving the full story. Bait and switch. Deception, IOW, albeit unintentionally.  

But it doesn't have to be that way. We could say these things up front: "It takes a lot of work, it takes persistence, and you need to invest in upvote bots. And you actually have to have content that someone on here is interested in." But do we?  People go weeks and even months before they hear this...