So I happened to notice someone I was following doing something on pretty much every single post over the last couple of days that really got under my skin. To the point that I ended up unfollowing them over it. And the person was actually posting some really good content. And getting good rewards for their posts ($100+ per post consistently, often several hundred dollars per post). But then they started adding a comment to every post they made giving links to their previous posts. You know, something that pretty much everyone else actually puts as part of their post. Why this bothers me? Well this person is pulling in some fairly decent rewards for their own posts without doing this. Apparently they aren't content with that. They are upvoting every single post they make. They then proceed to turn around and post one of the first comments to their own post (not in response to others, just links to their other posts). AND they're liking their comment every single time as well. So not only are they getting paid for writing the post, they're getting rewarded for curating it as well. On every single post they make. And they never seem to resteem anyone else's stuff. To me this just reeks of abusing the system and greed. And they're being rewarded for it by their followers. I get that they're being smart about maximizing their own rewards and that some of you may not have a problem with it. But as a newbie minnow, watching the people with thousands of followers gaming the system like this, instead of giving back to the community, AND getting rewarded for it, is kind of aggravating. Is that really the kind of behavior we want to be rewarding in the Steemit community? I get that most of us are here in some form or fashion because of the money. But having popular members hoarding the rewards like this, isn't healthy for the platform. I may not have much influence on my own, but I refuse to participate in rewarding someone who isn't contributing back to the community. The platform isn't going to grow if the rewards are being hoarded. Isn't it better to spread the rewards around, helping to grow the community, because it actually means more money for everyone in the long run? Like more members of the community is going to translate into more followers for people posting quality content, which is going to equal more money per post in the long term, right? So wouldn't it behoove all of us to actually be trying to spread the rewards around to entice people into staying on the platform and drawing in new members via their friends, family, and social networks? Seems a bit short sighted to me. But then, what do I know, I'm just a newbie minnow.