Also, even if you are successful, then what is Steem? A place for professional authors and photographers to reward each other? That's a pretty small community.

It certainly stops being social media if every post is critiqued - and then has no possibility of reward if it doesnt meet with smooth's definition of quality content.

If I take a picture of my dinner and my friends here like it - the way people use Facebook - is that quality content? Will I be critiqued and downvoted by a professional photographer who is envious because I have more friends (and thus more reward). Do you not understand that this is how downvotes will be used?

Why fucking bother post on Steemit at all if there is no incentive to be here? That's already the biggest reason people leave - they were told they could post here and be rewarded for it. And they don't get any votes. Now you want to make it even harder for a minnow to profit? Not only can he no longer invest in himself, but now he has to please all the critics? Why wouldn't someone just go to back to Twitter or Facebook if they arent going to be rewarded anyway?

One downvote large enough to erase someones entire earnings for a post that she worked hard on - that is all it will take for someone to leave here and never return. And it will happen in droves.