Someone Please Explain to Me......

Help me out here...

I have noticed a quite a number of pages that are entirely comprised of resteemed content. Nothing original at all. What am I missing? Is this even a successful strategy?

I do understand curating and resteeming valuable content for the benefit of sharing good stuff with others, I have resteemed content myself. I just thought that generally Steemit was a place for people to share original content. Is it even possible to be successful and raise your reputation score by solely resteeming other folk's content? Not that I would jump on that train, but I am just genuinely curious.

Personally, I want to see original content and tend not to follow pages where everything single post is resteemed. But maybe I am missing something?

Feel free drop some knowledge on this still learning newbie! :-)