RE: Steemit YouTube network effect, Adam the bitcoinmeister and Crypt0
About bitcoinmeister, that would be false advertising of steemit, but visibility is indeed needed. I prefer we are real and let things evolve in a natural way. If we could invite authors by saying you could earn (not saying we will pay you for sure if u come here) that would be the way. Dollarvigilantes post also made some false promises by marketing free money on steeimit, since things are not that way.
In reality, most of the people here earn shit but have the potential to earn something if they get recognition.
One more point, people are unreal in their expectations, and if they don't earn something they feel the system is rigged and give up, like paco did.
Steemit will have trouble with those things for as long as it exists since people can't understand reality or can't be real with themselves and the world around them.
you are wrong, many accounts are guaranteed to earn rewards because they are sub accounts controlled and owned by whales, like this account @ https://steemit.com/@masteryoda
and I think it is perfectly ok for this to happen if it means marketing steemit to youtubers, or if it means a whale is paying his/her self for investing in the platform by upvoting their own sub account just to get rewards, nothing wrong about that