Thanks for your insight, experience and the stack of papers analogy! UPVOTED!
My experience on Steemit has somewhat paralleled yours in terms of my rating, time spent here and experimenting with quality of posts! I put 10SD towards promoting my last post which I believe was a good quality article. My post is positioned a few above yours and I really wonder how the ranking system works in this section. I did attract one "whale" who UPVOTED me with his voting power set at 39%. I will post a more detailed account of the results once I have been paid out.
In any case have a look at my post and if you like it don't hesitate to upvote. :)
https://steemit.com/life/@kus-knee/the-old-dog-discovers-a-treasure-well-worth-digging-for
Wow that is a really great post you created. I am wondering if the whales will be scoping the Promoted feature; after all, they did create it. lol
I will most definitely be checking out OpenLibrary, super cool!
I am also curious how your experiment will be working out. I will be following you to read your observations.
Ok thanks for your comment and encouragement I'll follow you and maybe we can help each other and learn form each other's experiences.
Yeah that would be great. I feel a little bit lonely here on Steem so it would be nice to have someone to reflect on the experience with. I mean, I chat with people here and there but its flighty.