I joined the trail discord group because I am genuinely interested in helping undiscovered content creators grow, but after seeing this and doing some digging I'm kind of disenchanted. It was my understanding that bitshares were distributed to all the voters on the trail, but it looks like rewards haven't been paid out for a couple of months.

My GF's intro post was featured on a @steemisbeautiful post, they posted her photo without permission and that seemed kind of weird. Think the post has over $300 now, and it's kind of sad to know that won't be shared with all the new users they profiled.

Tried asking on discord, but it seems like no one is really interested in serving the community after all, just their wallets.

I was under the impression that I would be rewarded for my vote, but I guess they stopped doing that.

Thanks for bringing this to light, @berniesanders, I'm no longer a supporter of steem-trails.

As a new user, its kind of discouraging to see so much circle-jerking and meta content trending/hot. I'm just gonna keep my head down and keep post weird art and music experiments.