Upvote bots are indeed a problem (not saying I'm not using them), and also the extreme distribution between a minnows genuine upvote vs a whale that's just having the same old voting list upvoting the same un-stimulating authors.
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the whale paradox is a big problem and steemit team focusing on smart media tokens and tokenising the web so we can't expect them to help.
The promoted page is a joke and trending page has content that should not belong there.
There is no hope for a good author to grow