64 votes which is respectable and .50 cents reward. The post you are reflecting on has 376 votes and 3500 reward.

Which type of content do you think people will be more inclined to copy in the future?

It's so obvious that money controls speech here.

Anyway, keep up the good fight, though to be honest, you are wasting your time. There will be no whale willing to support comments that they perceive take value away from Steemit.com since if a contrary opinion post is successful, others will be inspired to write something similar.

Seriously, you'll make more money by just ignoring whatever you think is wrong and just fluff up what is right. I implore you, my friend, to heed my advice. Just go with the flow of the other sheep, I mean fish.

Once you are successful by playing the game, you can start to say what you really want to say and what needs to be said.

Hopefully, it won't be too late by then.