eventually, they swallowed what they vomited for me.

Sorry to hear about this, steemit is nothing like a ponzy scheme, it's more like a community of people, and you just joined it, welcome aboard and good luck on your posts, i'm waiting for some of that good quality content you will provide, followed and upvoted :) any questions you may have you can come to one of my posts and ask away, i don't mind answering to new people, i'm new myself (1 week old)