No, see, most people join when they see huge profits of top posts. But very quickly they figure out that either they can only produce trash which is not rewarded (that is most people, talented authors are few) or their valuable original content is lost in others trash. I.e. their chances of earning meaningful SP are near-zero.

So why use a social network which makes it very hard to post media contents and find content from your friends if you already have FB which does that better (except for 1 cent per week of rewards)? I want steem to succeed as much as any other person here, but it is not yet realistic, maybe in some distant future, when it is has something FB does not.