Yes, and I mentioned it in the post too again, I have 0 skills in graphics design, but I'm sure someone can modify it slightly in the event that it's not legal...

This is not where the problem is. The problem is that there is currently no incentive for curators to find hidden gem posts from unknown posters. In effect, there is pretty much no point in having curators

yes, but you'd literally need to be able to afford millions of dollars' worth of steem power if you really want to be able to affect anything. Posters who post valuable content should be found by the system,

thank you for reading! Problem is, I don't think any of the devs even saw mine. Do you have any advice on how you were able to get the attention of dan?

I have made a post regarding a new reward algorithm as well, with a slightly different focus. Unfortunately I don't think any of the big whales saw my post. If you don't mind, would it be possible if I

I have actually written about this. In the future, I envision a DAO managing advertising on the platform, and paying out the dividends proportional to the amount of Steem Power owned. This will give Steem

The money comes from the value created by the community as a whole, and the trust in the community. If you think about it, what is money? Money is merely a token of exchange. As long as both parties making

Now that the Steem slack is down, is there another place where we can chat and interact with you guys as well as other steem users?

Thanks for reading. I think it's hard to know just what is an appropriate % for activity and comments. Maybe as time passes, we'll have a better idea. but I think what is most important is to have a variable

Well to be honest, the easiest (well it's not really easy, but it's the clearest way, possibly the only way) way to succeed in Steem is to befriend and get the attention of a few whales. If you have a

But we are not handicapping top posters. Rather, top posters benefit more in my proposition. The idea is that top posters do not need to be discovered for curators, thus the work that the curators did

There will always be tons of spam, and that number will only get higher as the number of users increase. What we should be trying to do is find hidden gems that deserve to be discovered. That would probably

1 in 100 million? You mean there are only 70 people who know about Steem? lol...

Ironically the one that got the least amount of upvotes/money (you) was the one who put the most work writing original content in addition to Fred's blog post.

Great post. I feel that you are spot on with this. In fact, I just wrote a post of my experiences, which seem quite similar to yours (I swear I didn't copy you though, I wrote it before I saw your post...

This is very true, and honestly is the thing I'm thinking the most about for the past two days. How do we get adopted by a whale (or at least a dolphin)?

Thank you for your suggestion. I think I'll take it. You know, in a way, I don't feel "pain", in the sense that I don't feel like I deserved to have made it big with this anyway. I mean, even

EDIT: I must sound really bitter. And to be honest, I do kind of envy your success. But whether it's because your post is better timed and executed than mine, or because you are already quite established

I don't think that's where the difference comes from. Rather, @Kevinpham20 has an established presence, there is much more incentive to upvote his posts, because they're more likely to be discovered. I

I think one big problem is the difficulty and lack of incentives in discovering hidden gems, and posters who post amazing content but are not well established. I made a suggestion here, what do you think?