I enjoy the post and I can remotely understand how you feel and what you think, but this made me remember one person I met.
I'm rather using steemit chat than discord, but I'm happy to use both. One person sent me a PM and asked how I was and wanted me to go through his posts. This kept on going, even though I told him that he's not writing the type of content I'm looking after and gave some tips.
Then he finally asked, how much worth is my upvote. I told him how much $ I'm giving with my current vote and he was like "Oh ok then" and stopped sending me messages.
Now I don't know if I'm happy he finally listened to me and stopped bothering me or not, as certainly I wasn't.. good enough for his level?
You, just like me, got in touch with a money-seeker. - The thing is, that these people actually believes it works too. - How many messages do you think whales get? - 50 per day? 500? .. It's a shame that people don't have any common sense. They're in this to catch a whale or two and a whales vote on their first couple of articles, will actually ruin their chances, because they will never be satisfied with a $1 post after that. - These things takes time. Do the best you can during the time and rewards will come.
I can only imagine how many of these message higher power users get. I can imagine many of them think they are the first ones to invent that - begging after upvotes. It might work for other new users who are looking for followers, but at some point, most of them hopefully notice it's not good for them or anyone.
It'd be hard to get used in what this typically is. I remember my first entry to Steemit when my friend told me to join.
It took me a while until I posted anything, then I made a post which got some good bucks. Then next one got less.. third one got even less.. until I was at the 0.00$ level, as even my own upvote couldn't get it anywhere.
I quit, also lacking motivation and topics to write about, but since I've returned, I had taken an approach that I'm not in here for any money, just to post for fun and to join the community. I could make more money by spending all this time doing more work, but there are better things than money.
Very well said! - Now you're back, and you're back for good. Doing things you love or have a passion for.. Rewards will come. Sooner or later. :)