Steemit's capital pool being so unproportionately distributed to tabloid news stories and passing fads hardly seems like a sustainable business model.
This is frankly beginning to get to me as well. I have put hours of research and writing and proofreading and produced a few posts; two were moderate successes in their day, but the three last ones were failures.
It is not even the fact that they were failures that bothers me.
Here is a post a little over three paragraphs long. About being sucked in, having no self control, and letting an addiction take over - it ended up being worth $6700.
I wrote my take on that behavior pattern, why it is not beneficial, and how it can be overcome. It draws on years of personal experience and reflections; the prose, I would like to think, is vastly more expressive than the couple of paragraphs without formatting that compose the other post.
It was deemed to be worth $428.
Complaining about the problem with reckless abandon, no formatting and no solution ? $6700.
A thoughtful, dare I say well written solution to said problem? $428.
I realize how this sounds, and I will not let it stop me from writing (for the time being), but either there is clearly a problem with the way rewards are being distributed, or - perhaps unexpectedly - the shallow formulas that work in the larger society will also find success here, if steemit is but a microcosm of the larger system.