Since joining Steemit I've seen a lot of unhappy users over the past few days. A lot of disappointment.
Everyone wants to be rich but no one wants to put in any work!
You guys really need to think about why you're upset, and who you're upset with. I've been using social media for almost 10 years. Since 2007. I started with Myspace. I had thousands of friends and a page that I built from scratch using HTML code. Met a lot of girls on there too and that was great but HEY! Thats a story for a different day. But I must say, all the time spend on Myspace. All the code I hand wrote, Myspace never rewarded me with ONE CENT! Not even one penny! No pat on the back, NOTHING!
Once Myspace was done I started to tweet (I joined facebook after twitter because I wasn't in college yet). Twitter was the new wave. "See what your friends are up to right now with less that 140 characters!". My first Twitter page had over 50,000 tweets on it. I was very popular on Twitter in its prime. 100's of Retweets. Not to mention years of free promotion for them from me because every day at school I would say "Follow me on Twitter and tweet me." So I was constantly introducing my friends to it and they were passing a long the same message: "Follow me on Twitter." But did Twitter ever pay me for promotion? Or reward me for achieving 100 retweets? You already know the answer.
And facebook. I really don't want to get started with facebook because that is the greediest social media company on this spec of dust we call Earth. The have made BILLIONS from us and haven't given 1 cent TO us. Not even .00001% paid back to us.
So I say all that to introduce my biggest fear on Steemit is this: People will see users making $1,000 for post and then turn to look at their post making .01 or $1 and then give up on the platform. To some that sounds crazy but I can see it happening. Everyday I see a complaint from someone asking why their post isn't making as much as some of the posts on the trending page. It could be a number of reasons. Low votes. Low steem power votes. Or maybe no one likes it period. But keep this in mind, even if your post makes just under 1 cent worth of Steem Dollars,
