You raise a lot of good points in this video. I have been on steemit for over a month and I'm astounded at how many people are pissed about their earnings or are buying into the bitconnect schemes that have no stability. I didn't have a damn clue about steemits inner workings when i first started. I mean, I had known about steemit since it came out but didn't get on until recently as I said. You are right, in general LOTS of People on here aren't willing to learn. I have completely read through the FAQ 3 or 4 times and skimmed it dozens of times in a month period. I love steemit. My life has completly changed. I've met and connected with tons of amazing people. Have gotten to have actual real convos with people interested in the same things i am. Funny you should mention folks not knowing the difference between steem and SBD. i did a post on that like in my first week or so bevause despite all the digging through the FAQ i still didn't get it. I awarded a person with the best most clarifying answer with 2sbd. Or something. So my advice is if you don't know ask! There really are no dumb questions. I had two very high dollar posts within my first two or so weeks here on steemit. One about the executioners life that i made $390 on and one promting an artist friend of mine made close to $200. At the time I was thinking these are cool topics, i want to talk about them. Maybe someone will take interest. I talked about it because i wanted to. I didn't expect anything more than maybe a couple bucks or less and i would've been happy with that. I was astounded to say the least. Truth is you should not be EXPECTING people to just upvote or follow you. You need to enjoy the ride. If not you're on for the wrong reasons. Those two you mentioned I commend you on risking the "haters". But it only took me about a week on here to see something was just up with that.... That's all...i knew something was a little fishy.
Begging or whining about your earnings then blaming it on the platform is insane. You get out of it what you put in. The please upvote me shit is like seriously getting out of your car at a mall and asking someone for money for no reason other than you just want money. I actually created a fb group Steemit Dreamit aimed at helping steemians gain organic followings. ...the idea being have people folloeing you that want to not just bevause they are part of some voter clique. There's absolutely no upvote for upvote or follow for follow allowed. Small group but its fun and no one has posted anything that wasn't at least worth my upvote and a comment if not a resteem. I'm still learning new stuff about this platform everyday. Sorry this is a very topic hoping and rambly comment. I'm gonna resteem this