I am an affiliate marketer by profession and I really do not understand.
I have spent the last several years of my life hiring content writers to write specific articles on different subjects. I have spent hundreds of dollars, but never in my life would I spend $100 on an introduction. I simply do not understand how and why it would be worth that much. I understand how it is based on up-votes, but I read some of the other posts on here and they are not exactly shakespearian.
(confused face)
If you are a company like Steemit with clearly a lot of money at your disposal surely there is better ways to market, people are more than happy to submit content for free (look at wikipedia/reddit). I am not complaining, of course I would love the money, but I have the greater interest of crypto currency at heart. I am really sorry if I am missing something really obvious and I would love for someone to explain it to me really simply so that I can understand it. Thanks in advance!