How can we solve the issue where extremely well written informative posts are getting bypassed and not voted on, while considerably lower quality posts are making thousands. It is very disheartening for an author to spend a week or more on a post to have it fizzle out with a payout of .03 cents. We need curators voting purely for high quality, informative quality posts, as well as the other "crap" people, vote on as well, or you just loose quality authors over time.

Or am I incorrect in thinking that Steemit really isn't looking for high-quality informative posts really? If the goal is to be more like Facebook or Twitter, than many authors are wasting a ton of their time creating useful posts.

And yes I am going to use 2 of my posts as examples. I spent a FREAKING ton of time creating both of these posts below. Now before I get jumped on, these posts are not meant to appeal to the masses, but they are informative, high quality with a ton of useful information FOR THOSE who are looking for it. It deserves votes for that fact, but currently, there is no way to get those votes because people are not voting on posts based on these premises unless they personally find it useful. We need voters who vote based outside their own scopes of interest.

Post #1 - SCAM ALERT - Scams to Look Out For While Traveling

Post #2 - A Travelers Guide to Filipino Food

I am not looking for votes from posting these here, but I believe both deserve it, I am looking for a debate and some thoughts, answers and ideas from @dan and everyone else.

Another thing I wanted to bring to light here is my husband and I have been doing an unofficial "test" when it comes to types of posts that will get votes on Steemit. He has been focused more on Humor with funny useful takeaways. Where I have focused on recipes and helpful useful guides with high-quality useful information.

Here is an example of one of his posts -- HIS TEST POST #1

So far our tests conclude that unestablished names do not currently get votes right now (the majority of the time) or if you are not on a whales list. The interesting things are we both have been writing online articles for years and have done well, just not here on Steemit.

In the end, I believe the voting system needs a lot of work to actually benefit, reward and be worthwhile for authors and writers to stay on Steemit long term.

Any feedback on my which I feel are valid concerns is welcome from anyone.

Thanks for taking the time to read this,

♥♥ Jen ♥♥​