Hello Steemit!
Full disclosure: I've been here for a little over a week. My views may be construed as ignorance and not representative of anyone other than myself.
From what I can tell, Steemit is still very much a growing community. What I see however, is not indicative of a community that wants to grow outside of a small margin. I've seen some very good quality content and information that gets passed by or perhaps not even seen (definitely not mine) and I've also seen content that could be easily seen as junk, be worth a hefty chunk of change.
While I certainly understand that quality and information is highly subjective, I'm not the only person that recognizes this. Given my short time here, I can not properly raise too much of a valid concern. My post is more in concern to how to get Steem flowing back into the minnow community.
I also fully realize that there is a time requirement. Time to gather followers, time to see your account mature and such. Given that, certain payout circles seem to be clique like in nature. Maybe this is by design. If so, how does the vast amount of steem flow back through to generate more users and up the value of Steem?
Any and all insights into this post is appreciated. Not a rant mind you, just a perspective and those certainly can change!
Thank you for your time in reading.