While all those "motivating" articles are great and all, I really start doubting Steemit as a useful platform.
Not trying to complain or bitch around, just trying to understand Steemit a bit better. Atm it seems like the typical social-media-phenomena platform that values aribtrary content way more than useful information.

i.e. I wrote this article here.

https://steemit.com/travel/@oululahti/top-5-non-touristy-coffeeshops-in-amsterdam

I put a shitload of work into it collecting the information and putting them together after years of travles and making contact with locals that I would consider high quality and really helpful for those interested. Like a real travel-guide should be in my opinion.
Sure, it's a niche-post in a way and one might not like the topic, but in the end there were like 5 votes worth 0.03$.
It's not so much about the money, but the work doesn't seem valued if you compare it to other travel-articles getting dozens and hundreds of votes for 3 pictures with arbitrary text. I really love writing, but not sure what to make of Steemit, yet...