I think people get pretty discouraged... They spend hours crafting a post only to see no or little reward. Or worse they see it get downvoted and disappear... They also see the small rewards they do get drop in value substantially day after day... Tough thing for a lot of new comers to handle.
@jrcornel Here's the problem. Reddit has 85 million active users,none of those people are posting with the expectation of getting paid, they are doing it for pleasure. People on steemit are posting WITH the expectation of getting paid, and when they don't get paid they leave because the user base of the platform is not large enough to give them pleasure on its own. Its a catch-22. For steemit to hit a tipping point it needs higher user growth, but in order to get higher user growth the trending page of Steemit needs to look enticing to new users who have no clue wtf it is.
Good points. Like Ollie mentioned below, a lack of censorship might be a selling point to some who are thinking about joining...
Nice post. I think Steemit needs to market it's privacy and censorship free qualities alongside the 'Get Paid to Blog', this might help attract a different type of user, to the average users we are attacking at the moment..
Good thought!