This is amazing! I've had (have!) the exact same feelings like you and you have been one of the people that I was jealous of because you seemed to earn so much money, lol!
And I know how you feel, I'm in a period where I feel the same thing. I don't want to put out my heart and soul in my articles just to get absolutely nothing back, so how to do it? Don't have an answer to it, was thinking to try to do the "nice" bots, @randowhale etc. Will see if that would give any results. I found one whale though who has the same opinion as us minnows and is trying to find a solution: https://steemit.com/steemit/@yallapapi/hey-steemit-whales-how-d-you-like-to-fix-all-of-steemit-s-problems-and-make-bank-by-doing-absolutely-nothing
Btw, your articles are really good, the kind of quality content that Steemit is meant for.
Thank you so much for your comment. Yeah, I haven't made any money since 2 years ago, when I was lucky enough to find Steemit early on and make some SP. I hope people who know more about how this platform works can come up with ideas on how to make it fairer.
Wow, interesting. I've only been on here for three weeks, I've posted some articles (and got somehow lucky and earned money on one of them, I didn't do anything for it) and then came across some other posts about the experience of other people on here. So I did some more research before I put too much work for nothing to see how I best go ahead with this, and I'm still in the process.
But you mean that your 61 points in reputation came in the beginning and that's it? Was the platform different then/ it was easier to be seen? And the reputation doesn't help you to get seen? I thought that if you are a whale (based on reputation, and for me 61 means "whale") you automatically get more coverage, but maybe that's not the case? And how is your "advertising campaign" working out btw? Is it worth paying bots?
Personally, I really like the idea of Steemit and I understand that it's just in the beginning so not everything can be perfect (and you seem to be of the same opinion), and I've been trying to see if there is anything that I /minnows can do, so we don't just sit around waiting for someone else to fix the problem. We are part of the community too in the end. Although I can see that that opinion is maybe very naive and many of the minnows/ people who don't earn money already have tried a lot of things.
The question then is: Does anyone earn any money on Steemit or is all of the post on the trending page bid-bots?
The reputation comes from writing and getting likes and comments, not necessarily from the amount of money you have. I'm also a minnow, very very far from whale. Whales are usually accounts that have hundreds of thousands SP. Dolphins are considered any accounts with around 50 thousand SP.
People who earn a lot on steemit are the ones who already have a lot of SP or a huge number of followers. When you SP is high you get bigger curation reward for any vote, or you can delegate the SP to bots and they pay you for it. I hope this makes sense
Ah, ok, then I understand. I'm working on some idea how to earn money with Steemit, if you follow me you'll get it in the feed when I post it. (Or maybe you have enough of Steemit and want to just leave it)