Whales, orcas and dolphins: have you forgotten how did you guys become so BIG?
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I have made several mistakes when I signed up in steemit, I made fun of a lot of people and I decided to stop writing for some time.
So now I'm reading a lot of posts to understand how people can earn with steemit without wasting too much time.
The thing that scares me most is to see many good authors who earn few cents per post, which does not repay the efforts made in writing their posts. I also see many users with large amounts of STEEM POWER who are voting each other or even worse only vote themselves without thinking in any way to other users.
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Dear dolphins, whales and killer whales: have you forgotten how you have become such?
Have you forgotten that in order to have this huge amount of STEEM POWER someone has read and voted your posts and supported you for a long time so that you have become Big Fish?
Above all, the witnesses have the moral duty to give back to newcomers a bit of what they have accumulated over time and who continue to accumulate thanks also to the support of the community.
Many people have written that quality is rewarded here in Steemit, but I do not believe it and in my opinion you do not believe it too.
It seems to me one of those tales that they tell themselves to get new people on Steemit and keep good that one struggling to collect some change, while the big fish continue to earn huge figures without anyone cares about what happens.
So I ask you: it can still do us some good investing time and striving to write good content, or the time for newcomers is over and we have to settle for crumbs?
I’m okay with the payouts but our votes should be equal in the sense of how viewable a post is. Curation rewards and rank placement of post shouldn’t be exactly the same.
The majority of whales were successful not because the quality of their posts, but because they were early financial investors in the platform. Some of these whales aren't even active at all short of delegating to bots
Many of the orcas and dolphins also got into the platform early, some may have invested, but not quite in the same volume. They then built their base through early interactions and building out some tools, apps, bots or communities that fueled their success.
These days, I think most successful posters are immediately investing money into the platform and then buying votes through bidbots to promote themselves and build an audience quickly. They then need to be engaging to maintain it.
So, newcomers either settle for crumbs or go buy themselves a bakery.
There seems to be little room for a middle class in the current ecosystem.
Shouldn’t be*****