The bots miss most accounts. You will find hundreds of Steemians dropping quality posts but never receiving a reward.
Usually people figure out the system is rigged and leave ... this reduces the number of users and guarantees that STEEM will never rise.
PS: I fell bad that the bots missed one of your posts. I don't waste time writing posts for STEEM as I am not on the bots radar.
Well, I must admit that I agree that quality posts on Steem doesn't mean a lot, because unless you receive upvotes from bots, then they are normally not rewarded. Still, there are a couple of communities in which they really reward great content, so there is hope, like WorldofXPilar, ProjectHope, and also the SteemitAcademy where you can get quite nice upvotes and encouragements for writing content, so I wouldn't write Steemit off entirely though!
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