And you can easily enough end up working your ass off and NOT get noticed. The delegations make some sense to me IF there were given to the hardest workers and busiest manual curators. To me, that would be a totally appropriate way to delegate. But that's not how that happens.

Somewhere up front, there was some "marketing anxiety." That is, the FEAR that nobody would join the site UNLESS the "money card" was played immediately, up front. So many expectations were built around people posting elsewhere about Jeff Berwick's infamous $40,000 post... AS IF that was what Steemit was all about. Which is a bit like claiming you should go to work for Miscrosoft because Bill Gates made $100 million last year.

If the pitch had been "You have the possibility of earning rewards if you post quality content" rather than "Look! This guy made $40,000 for a single post!" we'd probably be having a different dialogue right now...