While the Steemit Whales continue their petty squabbles (cashing in along the way), over what is right and wrong with Steemit, the minnows continue to come and go.
Minnows are lured onto this platform, with the hope of earning a few dollars for their words, but what confronts them is something totally different.
The silence is deafening.
The Promise:
Write good unique content and you will be rewarded.
The Reality:
Moments after you click 'post', your writing will get sweep up in a sea of words written by other minnows hoping to get their chance in a flickering spotlight.
The Solution:
Upvote yourself, buy votes, join communities, take advantage of free social upvote bots or do what ever you can to keep you post above the water line.
As a minnow I totally get it, you need to hustle, and try to figure this out.
The current upvote buying squabble is not about you, but rather the whales wanting a bigger slice of the pie. Hell, some whales are the ones selling the upvotes so they can become bigger whales.
It's a total shit storm and definitely shouldn't be on the front page.
And while we are talking about the frontpage, that Trending tab is a total SCAM.
Please ignore it.
It's not working as intended, and will almost always be an indicator on how big your wallet is and not a representation of how the community has upvoted.
In reality that tab should be called 'Promoted' because that's what it is, absolute Self-Promotion.
Now don't get me wrong, the reading isn't bad, but the marketers haven't arrived yet, and when they do this place is going to get a whole lot messier.
I already see a few familiar Marketers lurking around this site, be warned you ain't seen nothing yet.
Marketers ruin everything.
So be prepared and draw your line in the sand.
Define your values, and stick to them.
The people exposing the loopholes in the system are doing this community a favour.
We can either act on the knowledge we've gained or trust petty squabbling will fix the problem.
Only one choice will help to normalise the platform.
Now I haven't begun to do my best work here yet because I'm only a minnow and I'm still testing the platform to see if this community is worthy of my time.
But, here's one example of a whale that could simply delegate his power to Minnow Support Projects to grow this community while he ponders his value on the platform.
But instead the SP wealth lies untouched for the odd occasion he wants to speak up.
Now it's time to release this post into the fast moving waters of Steemit and see if it get's lost amongst the flow of words, but rest assured I value my time and will do what I can to keep it above the water line.