If successful blogger cannot be defined then what would encourage the new bloggers to improve? What does the model blogger look like and what is success? If blogging on Steemit is not sustainable even for established bloggers then blogging just will not be attractive.
In my follow up post I mentioned Patreon. Patreon is what Youtubers used when Youtube demonetized thousands of established Youtubers. Is it possible that this auto-vote trend is actually the beginning of implementing a Patreon like model on Steemit?
Why fight against it? Why not legitimize this model by using SMTs to make it even better? I do understand the issue with people not reading posts which is why shorter posts are encouraged because if you think maybe people don't have the time to read them all as a blogger you will get to the point.
But the issue here and choice really is does Steemit want to encourage sustainable income for established bloggers or not? If not then established bloggers have to get sustainable income from somewhere else.
Lots of good questions. I think Steemit wants to to encourage sustainable income for established bloggers, but the reward pool is limited and with the current approach and voting system no new posters will ever come in the situation the currently established bloggers are - which might turn out as a slow death to the platform if next year competitive platforms will start. Maybe the only solution is that current trending posters earn less as a price that the platform is attractive for newbies as well, so that a sustainable growth of Steemit can be ensured. Otherwise we have a kind of inbreeding situation, when the same people are posting forever. In part one can see this today, but just my gut feeling, as I have a limited overview only.