"I get o,o1$ on my posts, Steem is a scam!"

I can't believe people have been posting on Facebook for free for over a decade, yet complain if they don't get rewards here, I guess the $ sign is really hypnotic.

I'm a manual curator for the italian community, there are a lot of people who joined a year ago and left after a couple of posts with zero rewards (mainly shitposts), those who stayed and have posted consistently since though, have a good amount of SP now.

Most people won't care about the rewards curve, 50/50 and all that at the next spike, what people seem to not get is that is not Steem that pays you but the community with their upvotes.
It's obvious that if you don't create connections, nobody will ever reward you, simply because nobody knows you.