-Part 1 Overview: This whole thread has devolved due to the apparent lack of integrity in several members. No one said you can't make money period from writing non-smut stories. No one said only smut stories make money in general, and anything said close to that is open to interpretation but is easily disprovable and can be seen as hyperbolic language.
The amount of misinformation is despicable. When referring to this site alone on the subject most can't seem to point to any actual backing for their points for or against making respectable amounts of money with supposed non-smut.
-Part 2 Scribblehub money: The data I'm going to proceed with accounts only for money made on patreon. I've accrued a list of stories to test the hypothesis and asked around for some input from at least well known level authors (Only 5 authors were readily reachable for this last minute data gathering), and the consensus thus far is approximately a range of 10-36%(Avg:23%) of patrons coming from Scribblehub alone, with ranges of revenue going from as low as 1500 to as high as 5k per month. Mind you all of these stories they wrote are the top .01% of Scribblehub (at least top 155)
To get more specific the patreon with an income of 2.2k had the highest amount of Scribblehub patrons at 36%, an unknown percentage of scribblehub patrons contributed at its peak 500$ to a patreon that at the time made an income of 4,475$ per month, another patreon with an income of around 3k+ had 20% of its patronage made up of Scribblehub readers, the highest income included reached around 5,691$ the assumed percentage of scribblehub patrons in this case was 25% (the income this percentage contributed to might either be an outlier or untrue as the author commented they no longer remember the date the poll was made on but I took a point that fits the description author gave "nope, could've been longer" when asked if it was exactly a year ago as of today's date.)
The large caveat here is that this data is old (all of the authors I've asked do not have any recent polls) and is limited in scope (again only 5 authors were asked). Even fairly new data (2/5 of the data points) that was included in this is from very early this year (January 2022) or less than 2 years ago (March 2021) but still fits in with the old data. It being 2-3 years old data means its relevancy is frankly debatable but in that debate there hasn't been a single rising star in the midst of this time frame that could give us insight into how much stake a developing story has on this website. This is bad because it illustrates that no one has even reached the peak of this site through exclusivity and achieved any recognizable level of success in terms of revenue (specifically 1st world country levels of wage).
Conversation (involving a well known member of the staff) around 2 years ago in the public scribblehub discord clearly outlined that money was not the reason to post on scribblehub, building and expanding readerbase was the touted reason to even consider it for any newcomers. There was hope that this would change given time but I do not see any evidence to prove this after so long.
-Part 3 Another Side: Now someone made the point that 4k followers on another site: Royal Road, would grant nearly 1k per month on patreon. I went through and sifted through the stories sitting at 4k followers and a couple of points above and below that, and decided to narrow the research down even further to stories that were made in the past year or so and came from non-established authors ie those who haven't had a story as big or bigger than this one. 11 stories fit that criteria, I also found some that went above and beyond but removed them, reducing it to the eleven being analyzed rn.
I included only the highest income they reached in a month, of those stories that started within 12 months ago and now that currently sit at nearly 4k; 7 of them made at least 1k at their highest income level, 4 of them did not reach this. 7 of them are not on Scribblehub, 4 of them are crossposted to here and RR. There does not seem to be any strong correlation with increased income to these stories from being posted on scribblehub.
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The two outliers that I didn't include to the eleven stated here make well over the 1k requirement and also are already at the top of their respective website. The minimum displayed here is equivalent to their number of patrons so it is my guess that a good chunk of them push the revenue far above that minimum.
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Conclusion: With this data I think it is a fair assertion to say that if you seek to post on this site for money alone with a non-smut story you are better served elsewhere, if you seek to post on this site for the purpose most recognize which is to build and expand a readerbase it is still debatable but ultimately up to the writer to make the call.