Well, to an extent, it is not, there is a high class of whales who basically can pump any article they decide, and, since they can upvote themselves, even if they just post 3 sentences and a photo of food, they get 50 USD per post
Oh that was absolutely the case for the most part of steem existence. But is changing lately :) The first step is the hardest one, you need to build some followers base. With the recent implementation of communities this is a bit easier to do. Check out steemleo, gems or ocd communities for example. Best of luck!
PS. I see that you used steempeak community to redirect to this post. That's a good start! You can also use "repost" functionality to do this.
Thanks for the comment/feedback. Will try a second time a little harder. The first step is by leveraging my 350+ followers on Publish0x, let's see if I can finally break-in on steemit. Also, I will check out your content.
Also you can try out the steempeak's promotion system:
https://steempeak.com/me/tools/promotions
Thanks!! I will, Steempeak is so much nicer, since it has extra services that are really convenient, like scheduling posts. And the UI is so much better.
Yep :) New updates and constantly added, hopefully it will become #1 steem interface because it's doing so much better job than steemit.com