Hey @anonymint. Thank you so much for writing this. While I'm still slightly confused by some of the more complex elements to the platform I can see clearly in your article how things are not always as they seem! I'd certainly be interested to find out more and have definitely benefitted from being an early adopter in Steem as much as 2 years ago have spoken to someone at a wedding who told me about it. Needless to say, I signed up and managed to create enough content to earn steem before the bots came a'running! I genuinely do look through the platform to comment and engage - just like we are doing now but can also see how people exploit things. Anyways, if you have any solutions to the problems you mentioned above I'd be more than willing to hear them! All the best, jonathan