"It's easy to get depressed when the price and rewards are low"
REALLY? The rewards for your posts have never been low. Your Yellowstone National Park post just made over $1,000 and your Tide Pooling post made over $1,300. Both those posts had no original pictures or anything. Were they worth something? Sure. But look at my recent posts for Canyonlands, Mesa Verde, and Petrified Forest. Original content, great pictures, great story......etc..
I can't even buy lunch with the payouts despite having over 300 followers and people who love my stuff? How much longer do you think good content creators are going to stick around on this platform when the payout differencial is that skewed?
Steemit needed good content creators that know enough about crypto to not be intimidated by this platform. Once we are gone who is going to replace us? There aren't that many people in the crypto world that can produce content like this and are willing to take the gamble of spending 5 hours on a post and getting paid $0.36. It is a damn shame but Steemit is one of the most amazing invovations the Internet has ever seen but I'm giving it a 50/50 chance to survive.
@brianphobos - I think you've really directed that at the wrong person. @donkeypong has helped to set up curie , was instrumental in helping steemSTEM get off the ground and now recently announced Steem Guild...
Also, you have some pretty cool posts, I'm following :)
Thank you for following and the kind words but It doesn't change the fact that the reward system is so skewed. How do you think I feel when I'm trying my hardest to put good content out there and can't make it. I'm not saying he hasn't done anything and that his posts aren't worth anything but his Yellowstone National Park post just made over $1,000 and his Tide Pooling post made over $1,300.
If I could make $100 / day on here liquid. (SBD and STEEM) I could devote full time to this platform and really crank out some super high quality stuff. Hardly any pure content creators can do this because the rewards are so skewed. It is going to cause all the good content creators to leave. It is already been happening.