When you register you need to enter phone number, all geeks know that entering real phone number for activation is a kill for anonymity, your sim card always contacts with nearest cellular tower and reports location.
The situation of rewards is not clearly defined, now all the users just can hope that some day they will earn more.
Popular opinion is that reward pool is filling, Steemit developers are smart they would know how to fill it faster if that would be truth.
Payouts Declined
Blockchain is about freedom is this is a fucking facebook?
Or at least if post payout is declined it has to be marked with reason, why it's declined?
Blockchain is public, i want to know why author didn't received payment for his hard work.
And most important one is that with this earning rate users will not going to be motivated to write long valuable posts.
We love steemit, but we not going to be steemit slaves.