@brianphobos - I think you've really directed that at the wrong person. @donkeypong has helped to set up curie , was instrumental in helping steemSTEM get off the ground and now recently announced Steem Guild...
Also, you have some pretty cool posts, I'm following :)
Thank you for following and the kind words but It doesn't change the fact that the reward system is so skewed. How do you think I feel when I'm trying my hardest to put good content out there and can't make it. I'm not saying he hasn't done anything and that his posts aren't worth anything but his Yellowstone National Park post just made over $1,000 and his Tide Pooling post made over $1,300.
If I could make $100 / day on here liquid. (SBD and STEEM) I could devote full time to this platform and really crank out some super high quality stuff. Hardly any pure content creators can do this because the rewards are so skewed. It is going to cause all the good content creators to leave. It is already been happening.