Good morning all,
I'm reposting this for visibility on a wider scale.
Steemit has been a great source to find new and inspiring authors that are drastically changing the Steemit ecosystem. I'm a fairly new account having joined just two months ago. In that time I've amassed over 800 followers and have gained a small amount of steam power; however, there is one thing that's always in stuck in my mind about Steemit and that's that the same individuals keep getting all the rewards while new authors seem to be making pennies.
Each day I come across a multitude of new Steem accounts that constantly ask what's wrong with my posts? They write meaningful content that should honestly be at the hot page, if not the trending page. With the recent SBD pump these new accounts are getting more for their writing and it's a good step forward, however I believe that there is a strong inequality in the reward system. New accounts need a way to gain rewards and have incentives for writing new content.
I see the same accounts getting hundreds of dollars in rewards each and every day and their posts aren't even meaningful. Some accounts post total shit and receive the same circle jerk rewards by the same 4 whales who I won't mention today.
It seems that nobody wants to spend their vote on content of new users and this forces new users to rely on bots such as minnowbooster or buildawhale to get their posts seen. This is not what Steemit should be in my opinion. How do I know this? Because even with 800 followers I get almost no rewards other than self up-voting. In fact, I have to send some SBD to a bot just for some people to maybe see this post (Which I doubt).
While I agree that not all of my content is the best or meaningful, there are times where I will write something that I feel has value and get nothing in return. I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels this way and this only makes new accounts just want to post crap quality content. It is frustrating to see a photograph that I took gain $0.10 and I see a blurry picture of a street lamp that gets $200.
Let's be real with ourselves, who wants to spend hours on content just to receive $0.10 in rewards while consistently seeing the same individuals ramble about what they did for the day (which took 5 minutes to write mind you) and receive $100 in rewards if not more.
Sadly, until this gets fixed we will always see an inequality that should have never existed in the first place.