I was saying this all along.. the whales and strong users are killing the system. i have been here for around 7 months now and i was saying the same. the new user has no way to grow. for example. i have spend some time here and no body gives a sh1t about what i post, only time you get upvote is when you pay for it, all the upvotes are "FOR SALE" and if you can pay it only then you can get and upvote and even if you pay for it, you won't get enough upvote to get your money back so actually when you paying for a small upvote and all your deposited SBD will be soon gone without giving you enough returns and you'll end up like me. and then after getting fed up from the system, you'll occasionally visit steemit.. it won't be of any interest anymore.. these upvote bots are a cancer to the system and this steemit project is going to crash land soon..