Great post gavvet... having been on here a couple of weeks now it is still somewhat confusing in the manner in which posts and votes are valued. I see posts with many votes and little earning value and posts with few votes but high earnings... to a newcomer as myself and many others it is very odd and difficult to make any sense of. I have read as much as available from the steemit community about how to correctly post and interpret the voting. But still it is confusing and I can see how authors would get frustrated.

Personally I am in for the long haul as steemit has become part of my self-publishing game plan and I understand the value of increasing my online presence with such a radical and advanced community as this. No pain, no gain. That being said... it is very strange......