Yes I agree it's frustrating. Even though what I've been doing has been mostly bringing quality content from elsewhere to the Steemit platform in order to add value to it. It still takes a lot of time and work.
To my mind if small players votes are worth nothing then it's not a democratic or an equal opportunity merit based reward system, as it doesn't afford the opportunity to work you way up from the bottom. It's is a poverty trap.
This could well turn out to be the Achilles' heel of Steemit, just the user abuse of Facebook, Twitter and Goolag will most certainly lead to their ultimate demise.
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Well, I think theoretically one can work their way up, but the biggest flaw in the system is that there are more content creators than consumers. Nobody is interested in reading 20 plus mile long posts a day. That's why Twatter and Facefook are so popular because people have the attention span of 3 months old labradoodles. And with the oversaturated media market who van blame them. Now out of desperation everybody is doing contests, ZZzzzzzzzzz, Someone needs to make something happen or this thing will go down faster than a dress on prom night.
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ha..I just read a long post about this
https://steemit.com/steemit/@omfedor/new-media-platform-where-good-authors-get-good-reward-for-good-content-let-s-create-it-together
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HaHa "a dress on prom night" I like it.
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I read the post you sent me the link to, and yes, I'm sure they have the best intentions, but I think the whole basic concept of the creators being also the only consumers is doomed to fail. The obvious conflict of interests is only one reason but there are many more...
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Oh BTW I found this post
https://steemit.com/steemit/@muratkbesiroglu/8-tips-to-earn-high-amount-of-curation-rewards-at-steemit-englishturkish
Looks interesting. Just to give you a heads up in case you haven't seen it already.
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Thanks for that, that's a really good post. I probably have to read it a few dozen times to understand it, but that's just me.
Here's another post addressing the widespread discontent with Steemit's 'reward' system. Sounds like changes are inevitable.
https://steemit.com/steem/@therealwolf/let-s-talk-hf20
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Ahh yes I wouldn't expect anything to actually come of that. I just found it interesting in that it shows that apparently there are lots of people who are unhappy and frustrated with the Steemit payment system.
I also looked in on a few more blogs expressing similar sentiments. So we're not alone in these opinions.
But to be fair Steemit is the first attempt at a mostly autonomous social media site with a built in payment system (which is no mean feat)and I'm sure that many more will evolve which will hopefully learn from it's shortcomings and design a more equitable payment system.
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