Yeah yeah yeah, I know you have all heard it before right, whales have too much power, go whine some more right. I agree it does get old people whining about that.

That said here is what is such fucking bullshit about Steemit

So this morning I made a post titled If Steemit No Longer Allowed Bots, Would the Price of Steem and SBD Tank?. The post was about a topic that does well on Steemit, Steemit itself. It was pretty well written and pretty thought provoking if I don't mind saying so myself.

The post was pretty well received by the community as well.

It wound up getting to date 140 upvotes and 23 comments.

To me that means it struck a chord with people on here. It had a lot of people who thought it was worthy of an upvote, but not only that, in some ways I think comments can be even more difficult to get than upvotes and I got 23 comments which again means people found the subject matter interesting and cared enough to take a moment to share their thoughts.

Now before I get into the quasi ranting part of the post let me first say I'm incredibly flattered by the upvotes as well as the comments. I appreciate your guys time and attention and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

Here's the part that drives me crazy though, and it's not even just about the money. This post got 140 upvote and 23 comments but it didn't make it onto the Trending or Hot pages. This post also made $7.26.

When I go to look at the "Hot" tab however I see posts that didn't get even a fraction of the upvotes or comments as my post which are making $40, others $80, some as high as a couple hundred Dollars.

Steemit Will Never Grow if this Remains How it is

So in the photos above the top post is mine which had a lot of upvotes and comments. The other posts made a lot of money and made it onto hot and trending but didn't get much engagement in the way of comments and upvotes.

Now with most platforms like Youtube and most other social media platforms the algorithms are written to take stuff which is well liked by large numbers of people and show it to more people. Ultimately at the end of the day the longer they keep you on the site the more money they make. And by showing you stuff which gets people engaged they are likely to keep you on the site for longer.

In the case of Steemit however the stuff that gets pushed to the masses isn't stuff that people enjoy, it isn't content that engages people and gets them involved. What gets pushed to the masses is content which is paid to be pushed out and/or content that is liked by a select few whales. That is not the recipe for a thriving platform.

I'm sure we've all heard arguments debating the needs of the many vs the needs of the few. In the case of Steemit it's not about rallying the community or getting the community engaged, it's about what benefits a handful of really powerful people on here.

That's my little rant for the day.

By the way, I don't mean to be overly negative, I'm simply pointing out some problems with Steemit. That said I will say the more shit talking I do or critiquing the platform I do the better my posts do lol.