that's why somehow we need to find actual active users and support each other (ofc if we like the content etc etc). It's way harder in practice though cause if we follow too many our feed turns into a nightmare and with our sp we can't upvote them all :( Also with communities and discord and post promotion channels it once again becomes difficult cause it will gather too many for one person to upvote.
The best thing would be once again a community that rewards active and quality users, but then again how can you measure quality? :P you may think something a quality that i don't and vice versa. Shit it became too complicated :P
How do you think SBI is a scam? i get some upvotes from them but it's shares others gave to me, never spent a steem for that purpose and generally i get the idea but never got deep into it, so i am curious now that you mentioned it
I have bought or given a total of 14 shares, I get a .01 upvote so that means 1400 votes to earn the money back. Yet if you look at the automated accounts they have voting their people and accounts get very healthy votes every day.
Sure you get a vote and that is all some people want, votes on every post but the time it will take you to see a gain will be well after steemit is dead.
so let's hope to earn shares from others :P and only gain "profit" :P
It would be more profit if they powered up and voted me one time.
I find @qurator to be a good community which finds quality posts...