Wow, interesting. I've only been on here for three weeks, I've posted some articles (and got somehow lucky and earned money on one of them, I didn't do anything for it) and then came across some other posts about the experience of other people on here. So I did some more research before I put too much work for nothing to see how I best go ahead with this, and I'm still in the process.

But you mean that your 61 points in reputation came in the beginning and that's it? Was the platform different then/ it was easier to be seen? And the reputation doesn't help you to get seen? I thought that if you are a whale (based on reputation, and for me 61 means "whale") you automatically get more coverage, but maybe that's not the case? And how is your "advertising campaign" working out btw? Is it worth paying bots?

Personally, I really like the idea of Steemit and I understand that it's just in the beginning so not everything can be perfect (and you seem to be of the same opinion), and I've been trying to see if there is anything that I /minnows can do, so we don't just sit around waiting for someone else to fix the problem. We are part of the community too in the end. Although I can see that that opinion is maybe very naive and many of the minnows/ people who don't earn money already have tried a lot of things.

The question then is: Does anyone earn any money on Steemit or is all of the post on the trending page bid-bots?