It's OK man, dan is a busy man, and sweetssj earned the "STEEM Effect" (what you call the echo chamber is actually a feature not a bug of STEEM) because she showed up first and the bots latched on to her because there was nobody else around.

STEEM is just a another blockchain being mined into existence at 10% per year, and everyone wants a piece of the freshly minted coins.

Yes, it's true that selfish mining exists on all chains. It just so happens that STEEM lets non-computer geeks like her to get a following of both humans and bots alike. Social media is all about increasing your following. We are all stars, just trying to gain more followers and likes. People compete on Facebook and Twitter to earn a following even though they don't earn as much as her.

We don't earn as much as Furion because he is more popular than us.

Look at the e-steem guy, busting his ass, and someone else is making $50 per day for photos. But so what, STEEM is not ALL about blogging, it's just another blockchain with selfish miners and a tiny overall community that just so happens to allow anyone to freely post anything immutably.

If you care how much you are making on a post, then that's your issue. But the fact is that if you are already popular like Berwick or Shrem, then you WILL MAKE MONEY GUARANTEED.

Becoming popular is what it is all about. Look at what Bitcoin Jesus 1.O just did for DASH now that he finally got tired of waiting 40 minutes for his bitcoins.

Your criticism of STEEM is great. The community appreciates it, but they are obviously not as willing to throw their STEEM power behind it like I am.