I am doing my best to understand how steemit works, so am reading people who might have a clue. I am an author and blogger - put a lot of time and energy into my content. It seems like this place is a mixed bag - some really lame posts and some excellent ones. What bothers me is that I might post something that took me a week to write, to get it the way I want it, and it will not even get one View - very discouraging. But I'm hanging in here because I like the concept of being able to help a content creator earn steam by upvoting them - if the content is worth an upvote. Is your post telling us that people are using steemit to trade upvotes with no thought of content? I saw a Facebook group that looked like that was their aim. Hope someone responds.