I feel you are missing what is being said here. I am not speaking of ROI.
Yes, you are speaking of ROI.
A minnow votes 40 x 7 times a week and gets paid out once or twice.
Because they have not made any investment - therefore, they don't get much of a return. If they want to see bigger numbers, they need to put in more money or more time to earn that money.
If you had a slot machine that paid out once every 280 pulls, you probably wouldn't play it very long, even if it was free.
If my odds of winning increased every time I pulled the lever, I would probably keep pulling that lever. Or, if I could invest a few pennies into the slot machine so that every time someone else pulled that lever, I had a chance to earn, I would probably invest some pennies - especially if I could see a 25 - 30% annualized return on that investment.
It's all about knowing the product. The new people coming here and getting frustrated have not taken the time to learn the product and learn how to capitalize on their investment. And if they're looking at their returns in the same way that you keep explaining them here, I can understand their frustration.
We need to stop perpetuating false expectations and showing people how not to read their returns on their non-investments or their tiny investments. If you want to see how ROI works on this platform and how a "minnow" can increase their returns, take a look at my own numbers. I started with nothing and made no cash investment into this platform:
https://steemdb.com/@ats-david/curation
http://steemwhales.com/ats-david?weekly