Lately I’ve been noticing something odd about Steemit payouts.
There are clearly a lot more people on Steemit since May, and most of them have bugger all followers and make next to nothing for their posts. That is to be expected, it takes most people a while to find an audience here.
Now to go on about myself a bit here, in 2016 my highest post payout was $404 for this post – https://steemit.com/photography/@sift666/my-obsessive-polaroid-photo-fetish
Meanwhile, this year, the best I have pulled down is $22.29 for this post - https://steemit.com/life/@sift666/not-safe-for-work
Maybe it’s because I’m not putting in as much effort into my posts. And that is true, I’m not, because I’ve been a bit busy. But yesterday I had a crack at doing a post more like what I was posting last year. And It pulled down $2.50.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@sift666/steemit-is-replacing-blogs-spams-and-fakebooks
Meanwhile there are some people making over $500 for everything they post.
This morning I was reading a post that had just made $500. It was an OK post, perfectly competent, but not really that awesome.
If I posted it, I would probably make about $2. If 
So now I’m thinking $500 a post, for every post, one every day – that is getting a bit odd.
I don’t want to name any names because I don’t want to get blubbered to death by a pod of incestuous whales, but WTF?
People have been talking about circle jerks. And they don’t mean the thrash band, they mean the soggy biscuit.
All I’m looking for is a few soggy crumbs, and now a bunch of new punters seem to consider old timers like me well established Steemians.
I’m starting to think this may be a bit of an issue. Hopefully the new hard-fork will improve things in this area.
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