@liberosist,

Your explanation and hypothesis makes sense, but I feel the solution is still not yet here when it comes to curation.

Currently, I have half a dozen hours a week of time to invest into something more than myself, and also I have a sizable yet modest stash of fiat sitting idle that I want to plonk down on perhaps some crypto/blockchain that can grow to help others, communities, for all our mutual benefit.

I surely don't want my money or time to only get sucked into financial mania or hyped ico....but something more sustaining, definitely not greed based like so many alt-coin these days that does not justify their bloated valuation, but instead put my treasure to something beneficial for the long term, something positively affecting the multitudes, and if possible potentially transformational for humanity.

Blockchain ICO: Currently Charging Down The Popular Path of BoobJobs and ChemicalBooner ^{source:pinterest}

And then I've discovered Steem through simple readings about Dan and EOS...now I thought I might have found a blockchain I can support.

I'm here 3+ weeks in and I still can't see if this is an early beginning where there is yet to be discovered scalable secret sauce to attract and retain at least say (25%) 1 in 4 real person joining (especially those who does not or cannot afford to buy Steem say in 3rd world countries or those income-less or on the street but can get to a library to surf for free on Steemit.com)...

OR.... is this an elite club of survivors with exceptional writing, blockchain coding, crypto scamming, charismatic persons with such aptitudes, OR worst someday just becomes an intagram-reddit hybrid where it's chook-full of individuals who won the genetic lottery with hot bodies dispensing motivational of philosophical advice....while travelling the world on hundreds of thousands of delegated Steem from whales?

I'm not venting, I'm exploring, I have made efforts to recreate (my own steemit experiment) assuming I'm someone who is shy, private, or potentially low self-confidence (to post/blog openly), use zero code skills, has zero connections, has zero cash to start, and no blogging experience, and I ask myself, what would I do here on Steemit? Curate...yes, and Support, yet!

Steem: The Block Chain of Choice for Social-Economical Mad Scientist-ques Experimentations ^{source:businessinsider.com}

This is what I have tried:

Curating

I tried to give back by curating...but I could not....curie form page just does not work with new users....is this an elite circle of people who are qualified, curators....then I reached out to @kevinwong to submit the curation, and bang it went through for him.

• so I learn quickly there is no profit or encouragement for new curators......or are we just seen as competition to established folks (say >3-4months here) here that have networked into the jerk circle? Look if we can't get people to start making a difference in 30-60 days most will leave.

Steemit: Where There is No Definition For Curation.... ^{Nor Sadly Any Welcome For Those Aspiring To Be Curator for @Curie.
source: pinterest}

See Here The HIdden Wisdom in Steemit By Rare Elder In Our Community: https://steemit.com/life/@drsinmongwong/a-life-of-abundance-begins-with-these-3-basics-skills

Still, I like to think it was a small positive outcome, @Curie & followings did a vote on that poster I found, and he got like $50 or something, but even with curie, the post barely got 60 views....honestly it really seems like this old guy (who was a child during the WW2 era or something) is here to contribute...I get the feeling he's not here just for upvotes, but more interested to share, especially now in his twilight years, perhaps his legacy is to give back.

For such writers, the number of views and follows will mean so much more. I didn't know how much curie paid for first time writers, but I had hoped my effort to get curation by @curie would generate interest and attention to value, or at the very the very least help bring >100 views for him....but sadly, there was no additional support from the steemit community that prides itself in curation (unless people are only curating for 100% profit and curators really doesn't care long term about the community, but I can't believe that's true, as I'm not one of them....so where are the rest? ).

Look, take a read about basic skills needed for a life of abundance and tell me he could not get 1000 readers elsewhere? Instead he choose to give blogging a try here, in steemit, with all of us.... so do we not even have enough readers to show up just to read?

The post is a genuine 2000++ word blog crammed full of insights, wisdom, just brilliantly relevant to everyone under the age of say 65 years old.

But something is wrong when I have zero post and 140+ followers, and he has multple post and like only 5 followers....What The F/Heck right?

Curie Upvote: One Time Visits That Leaves You Wondering If You'll Ever Be Visited Again

Here is where I asked @kevinwong for help

Supporting Dedicated Writers, Strong Community Participants, and Regular Posters

I tried to show support to writers that I seem to put 100% of their effort...like these crazy long winded respond that I make

• and I feel it has made only a small impact, I'm getting feedback and kind connections, but if feels like I am still so disconnected for everyone else here. I wish that readers who don't have enough upvote % left can at least click on a "seen" button for replies....for as far as I can tell, the Steem blockchain considers it as a mini-post.

my attempt to be supportive by giving super long responses....I actually found out that I could max out the respond in the reply field...haha so I had to break it into 2 post once. (yes I know I have to stop doing this, ok maybe this post will be the last long one)

Here is an example:

Long Curation Replies To Post

My Crazy Long Reply to: 'Is Steemit In Economic and Social Suicide Death Spiral/_{really should be just} Plateau]

Short Curation Replies To Post

Also I tried to makes lots of short silly responds just to make people who visit the post smile when they read the replies@

My Replied To This Post About How Hard It Is Todo Comedy

From My Replied To This Satirical Post Poking at 2 Orcas

From My Replied To This Post By a Minnow BlockChain Coder & Witness To Give Us More Freedom of Choice With His Steemit Application

My Replies/Encouragement To @Revo To Support Minnows Who Post Regularly

My Replied To BTC Blast From The Past Post

My StupidDumbFuck Replied To A Post About Fuck Coin

My Uplifting Reply & Sending Some SBD to Cheer Up A Steemian Who got Assaulted Recently

My Replied To A Very Cool Punchlin Post by a Noobs Worth Supporting

My Cheeky Replies Explaining My Bad Habit of Replying To My Replies

and a shit ton more but I better stop as I'm sure I've worn 90% of you guys out, and if I still can't make my point, nothing else said in this Post will matter:

In the process of curating, I learn that the inequality is not a small thing here in Steemit Beta:

I see someone making $30-$55 a post one liners zaps (who rightfully deserves it), and then I see a comic talent who should be getting at least $3.00 of Steem can't even get $0.03 cents of upvotes, Ironically, he's getting $0.01 from russian bot cartels scamming the system.

Now that's a sad situation.

See this dude...he's got some cool punchlines...and nobody notices:

Intro to This New Punchliner, with no visits

So Maybe All I'm trying to Say Is....

Why Are There Not More Curation Efforts?

Can we get a

@zapCurie

for short less than 100 words posting, OR

@humorCurie

for funny shit, OR,

@replyCurie

....becuase I learnt yesterday when I tried to minnowboost a great comment I found out it was just Banned! Seriously?

I already getting weary about introducing Steemit to anyone, I fear they will be disappointed unless I can guide and suggest a strategy for them.

I was even thinking putting my funds in eos, or a sprinkling into fuck token/coin....even the dinosaur bitcoin (probably just before it crash from $15,000 back to $5000).....but why should I when we can still fix things here in Steemit?

Double Ironically, everywhere I goto read stuff....I see half of all decent writer powering down as recently as in the last month till last week.....so maybe it's best i just wait till Steem price goes to $0.60 then I get in significantly and powerup.

My Other Point Is

Why Are We Not Experimenting More......

or at least welcome more experimentation....let the upvote, downvote, sidevote, fuckvote bots come, let the masses with their crazy ideas come:

My First Long Post to @transisto to debate the point of tolerating/having bad stuff on Steemit Beta

Also there is an argument that we need to let anything, anyone, anyhow get the word out and promote Steemit/Steem, and anyhow encourage adoption and retention of real people (the mainstream is the backbone of all the contributors here), and we really need more support structure (like better editing inputs...seriously how long can we go on with html and markdown? how long can we not have communities but only live with pockets of snail paced recruitment? how long can we go without connection like favorites and friendship so we can track our top priority feed before the mass feed we like to see in our customized front page?).

I also wish Steemit will put up a live login count for web-presence (so all bots are discounted), I hope we even have 10% present or current about 45K visiting at a time (That's if we really have anywhere between 200K to 450K registrated users).

Look...if retention and promotion of real new people means we have to find a better way to allow bought upvote with average quality writing (for now) then so be it.....but I get the feeling everyone (meaning the establish and long time Steemians) here thinks I'm wrong.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I swear Steem feels like it has very-very little visibility for a 2+ year coin, especially one support by multiple entities, websites, and potentially tens of thousands of smaller investors (>1000 Steem), and strangely it feels invisible in the current boom of blockchain mania.

OR...maybe I just doing and looking at things incorrectly here...oh well (yeah...I know I should start posting...honestly I'm here to invest into others and to leave my cash somewhere long term).