There are plenty of people who think the place is broken, always outspoken. I like to read but it's turning into the same song over and over, with a different singer. Too many cooks in the kitchen and many of them lack enough experience to make a valid point. Some folks do a good job of pointing out the numbers, for instance, but then others convert the message into, "OMG the world is ending! It's broken! I better write a nonsensical post about it now and boost it up as high as I can so the rest of the place believes me even though I'm just talking out of my ass!"
I just turn the page now.
I avoid the trending pages. If it's junk, I escape it and if it's that good, they probably don't need my help.
I like to stay informed, always have, but that page is mostly advertisements and paid programming now. Many of the commentators don't even seem real any more. Hundreds of comments, but nobody is really saying anything. Unfortunately, it's a lot of noobs thinking those people are popular whales with high valued votes so they want to kiss butt and hopefully get a vote on their work. That's not how this place works though. I even wrote about how much it sucks to feel used like that by two-faced people. I guess it reminds me of one of those late night infomercials that includes a fake live audience to cheer and applaud the sales pitch.
When the noobs pile on, you can tell they haven't read how things work.
Steemit changed the rewards curve to give everyone a higher valued vote, because those at the bottom were grumbling, and it seemed like a good idea. They got their way and instead of voting for each other so they can actually make some money and grow their accounts so they could make even more money down the road, they chose to ignore each other and vote for advertisements on the trending page which in turn means they won't earn much of anything at all. Yup. Again, it's all their own fault, but they blame the platform. People would stay if others stayed and paid attention to them, but nobody seems to want that, they just want to sit around and try to think of ways to fix a problem they created themselves by deflecting the issues onto the platform itself. Genius! Meanwhile, some advertisers convinced them to delegate away their SP to said advertisers so the advertisers could make even more money. That made their once valuable votes worthless again and it's like the reward curve change didn't happen. Again, it was their choice to make that mistake, it's their fault they can't earn... but they still want to blame the platform.
And to top it all off, some people actually delegated away their SP, then turn around and PAY a bidbot owner so they can use it on their posts. The idiocy knows no bounds.
When did they change the rewards curve?
Probably about a year ago, give or take a month.
Okay, so before my time. I thought I had read everything so no change.