Hi, I am Juliane from Germany. I am totally disappointed by the tricks of upvote system.
It's not been a long time, since since I have joined at steemit. But here all system is totally fu**ed up. If someone write like " hay I am mr X and you?" and buy some upvote, he will earn money. Also it depends on how much steem power you have. That means if you invest money, you will get return.
In case of new user like us, investing money and buying upvote won't work because we need a huge amount of steem power and at least 160% of return from upvote. Reality is we have nothing. So there is no chance that new account will make money from here.
Do you know how upvote system works? I saw some account invested million dollars and their upvote worth is mone that 150$ dollar. But if you send some money like 10$, they will give you an upvote worth of 10-12$ dollar. But here is interesting thing. You will get only 80% to 90% of that money depending on your Steem Power. For new user with a few steem power will not be benefited. However I would say, there is no value of good content here. Only things that makes difference here money.
I am loosing my patience to work at steemit.