It's easy to get caught up in the emotion of something like this, whether for yourself or empathy for someone else. Sometimes it's good to get a balanced viewpoint like this one.
You touched on something I've so far not seen addressed.
His logic was that the author's posts were not attracting a large enough view count to justify the rewards on those posts.
What's ironic to me is the system is set up for this upvotes without views syndrome. Curation trails, vote following, and there are multiple services available that do this for you. Your post provides evidence for this very point.
At the time of this posting you've had 56 view and 128 votes.
I just find it ironic. (Meaning the way the system is designed)
Oh, absolutely. What @transisto was saying was view counts vs. dollars earned. But both are skewed on Steemit, for sure.
I just joined and also noticed bots or spamming is present? I saw a new post go up and earn $0.50 within 1 minute, sounds fishy? It's sad because these ecosystems are meant to flush out such rubbish and reward quality content. I had hope for the Blockchain and that it would help me honestly, now I'm just thinking the whole world and every platform on it will always be corrupt and unjust :(