Hi, Swissclive - Thank you for explaining this - I am not quite clever/knowledgeable about Steemit enough yet to fully comprehend your explanation - is anyone working on a way to un-game this?

It seems like such a relatively noble enterprise...it’s a shame that with only hundreds of thousand of users scammers are already taking over...

I'm not in this for the money, fortunately, except, sort of, in reverse. I don’t want to be a slave to Zuckerberg et al.

I find it baffling that people - billions of people - spend their days like serfs...no, slaves...(well, willing slaves) posting their photos on Instagram etc et al, in order to make investors in those companies rich. Why are you making strangers (most likely, strangers) billionaires? I guess most people, subconsciously at least, just want to be slaves. Why else?

On the other hand, video is expensive to host/stream, and on Youtube you can share in ad revenue - so that, as a surely inadvertent exception, seems relatively fair. But why would I write on Tumbler? Why post on Facebook?

So I came here to Steem to do try something that seemed, at least, fair, if not lucrative or enriching. But, now, you’re telling me that I’m making scammers and bot-makers money by posting here…

Geez….the internet, I understand, was a nice place before the invention of the WWW. Some guy is creating a new protocol called LBRY, which maybe will do what Steemit tries to do, as I understand it, but, maybe even better?

I dunno, I find it all kind of depressing….

But, thanks for replying to me!