Hive account@willymac, it has been a hard lesson indeed. i have always felt that we do not encourage good writers. if i consistently tell a good writer that you are only as good as the followers you have got, then i have not created a platform for you to flourish.

i have made points like these in the past but not many people read it or even acknowledge it. I am ok with it if it is a difference in opinion but such writing dont seem to elicit any opinion whatsoever.

Of late i have struggled to post on Steemit for that very reason because it is very hard to see things come to a pass just like you have predicted it.

I have read many articles like the taskmaster's posts and i have not agreed with them. quality is subjective but that does not mean it is insignificant. Quality should be encouraged without which we will have chaos.

Is quality elitist? i hope not.

Initially steemit encouraged bloggers to come on board and pushed for quality posts. Eventually they wanted people to come on board so that there are a lot of transactions on the system. that itself seems like a system bent on self flagellation.

i think there are a lot of people who have made financial investments into Steemit who just want to see it succeed by any means possible. Maybe that is what the platform requires. Who am i to second guess them?

A writer requires a platform that can give people good visibility to his/her work. A platform that is not governed merely by social behavior. A platform that thinks itself as a bridge between consumers and publishers. It will deliver material from publishers to consumers based on preference matching.

I would like to follow good content rather than the author who writes them. But that is my personal preference. I don't think Steemit thinks this way.