As Newby I find this really frustrating and discouraging!
@pressfortruth earns more with 1 post as I do in a full year. And don't get me wrong, cause I'm not saying I should earn much more. But the financial weakly should be divided way better. Which means these kind of users should earn much less. And a whole bunch of newbies should earn just a little bit more.
Another aspect that is important in my opinion is of such an author gets upvoted for his great content? Or is it because of what I think they call circle jerking? Or because of auto upvotes?
In the past you could get an idea about this by looking at the number of views. When a post has 40 views and 160 upvotes it seems something is wrong.
Seeing these kind of things happening sometimes just makes me this angry that I send the top10 upvoters a comment to all why they upvoted that specific post? But since I'm around on Steemit for several months now I realize how useless that is. Since almost no one replies to such a comment. And how many Steemonians will change their behavior? Close to zero I would guess.....😥
Circle jerking all around with those folks, they don’t even try anymore. They copy and paste whatever crap they find on the internet and bots they control vote it and their friends do the same. Parallels to the contemporary business world eh? 🤔
Yeah crypto is like the digital world of bankers 🤐
Auto votes factor in, popularity too, and just liking the content. If you have lots of SP, you get to decide how to apply your influence of the reward pool to others... :/ Money rules many of the people here, that's why they use bidbots ;)