Either I've been incredibly lucky or I'm actually Billy-no-Mates?

I've not seen any of the ever growing list of complaints I see on steemit, I have seen the complaints but I've not seen any of the stuff people are complaining about. I did see for the very first time a post today talking about some lottery asking you for $0.01 to supposedly buy a ticket with the chance of winning (I can't remember if the prize is 100% carved in granite so I am generalising) $100 steem dollars. And I have seen these "Prize Giveaway" posts which at first I thought were just designed to gain followers (Which of-course it is.) with no actual prizes but I did see someone the other day claiming that they had not only won something but that they had also refused a prize. (Because it was crap I suspect. :-D)

I have two thoughts.
First $0.01 is not exactly the great train robbery and if I was running a scam it would at the very least be $1.00 a throw!
Secondly nobody is holding a gun to your head to partake in these things.

Now I really like steemit, I've been around the blogging/social media scene for years but my observation since joing is that the major problem for steemit is the very reason it is in existence and that's MONEY. I've read a fair few posts that are essentially moaning about money or the lack of. Everything from Whales hoovering up all the profits and not throwing any crumbs down the food-chain to stuff like "It's not fair! Whys his piece of crap being paid hundreds of dollars and getting thousands of votes when my awesome post is getting feck all!"

Given steemit is like ripples on a pond and the bigger the ripples the bigger the rewards it's no wonder some of the pond life rise to the surface looking for a free meal. For me the best course of action is adopt the same method you should really use with email. If the subject line looks dodgy don't open it. Remember, steemit also records "views" so even just opening a post is adding validation to it.

#TwoPenneth

Now where did I put that rant about rotten Youtubers who are already successful on Youtube coming on here with fifty bazillion followers from youtube and becoming whales within a few hours? ;-)