I can appreciate your point! The idea that people were doing this for free earlier on other platforms is well taken.

However, some posts aimed at newbies will generally not get a lot of steem reward even if they get votes. Also, call it envy, but it's mildly annoying to see someone like Hive account@wang, who's never made a blog post, have over a million worth of steem for (mostly?) botting. I get that's the deal, he got here early and made the bot, but you have to acknowledge that it casts some doubt in new users minds about what is being rewarded on steemit.

I agree with Hive account@cryptobarry no reason to get upset, just enjoy, but extrinsic rewards often drive out intrinsic ones, so while I can understand the envy, I agree the two of you are on the right track.