OK before I say any-more it's a good piece of work.
Not sure what your focus is though with this post? On the whole it would seem you're talking about users behaviour, and you give some excellent advice. Sadly I doubt many will heed it in their desperation to become millionaires via steemit overnight which any sane person can see is not going to happen. All this talk of attracting a whale is ridiculous, it's the age old Carrot & Stick story and rarely does the donkey get the carrot. No wonder certain sections of the Internet are accusing Steemit of being a Ponzi scheme.
You mentioned, but did not expand on, the quality of users work. There are those like you and I who clearly put a lot of work and love into their posts and yet receive very little reward for our efforts while I've seen some folks slap three childish animated gifs on their posts and it's been upvoted well beyond the $800 mark! I'm also starting to see people regurgitating YouTube videos onto Steemit too and people are upvoting those as well! There's just no justice in the world. :-(
Thanks for your reply and your time to write this. I did mention the quality of work and yes I totally agree that some of the Steemians around do get a very little reward for quality posts and some others gain lots of cash for absolutely nothing. I totally agree with you that there is no justice in that.
Example: In the NSFW catagory people are getting insane amounts of their pictures where they are half naked or naked. Honestly it's crap that you sell yourself out like that for money on this platform. I rather have some NSFW content like @nspart than that crap.
I do have to say that some of the Youtube video's are actually pretty good and I do learn from some. But making double money on that is also not fair. I'm doing some research at the moment for many improved points for Steemit since it's still in Beta and I hope it get's noticed when it's published.
For now I wish you lots of fun with blogging and I hope your rewards will increase overtime ;)
It wouldn't be so bad if the Youtube stuff was new, most of it is anywhere up to 10 years old and in some cases not even the property of the poster!
Having said that I'm in no position to criticise people using content from years ago as in my series "Seriously?" I am regurgitating content that I posted on the web years ago. In my defence I am trying to build that up and bring it right up to date so that all the new stuff I post will have a kind of historic platform.
One of the main issues with Steemit is the original members were not initially getting any rewards. Once those started to kick in they all had big payouts immediately elevating them to this so called whale status. Now that was cited as a reason to join Steemit so you can see why lots of opportunists have joined. Those are the ones I hope get disheartened and leave so that serious individuals like you and I can get on and build some value.