Some bloggers even have two post in the top 20.
These bloggers justify their position because they think this platform is all about quality articles and that's what gives Steem value.
IMO, Steem would be more valueable if the reward pool were more evenly spread out. At the current price of Steem, I can't see any of these blogs I read worth more than $30 or so.
The whales are up to their old tricks by upvoting the same old same old with this ridiculously unfair, weighted non linear rewards curve.
The average investor is already annoyed about this and I, for one, am loosing patience. IMO, it is imperative that Hard Fork 17 addresses this curation curve weighting issue.
Let's face it, this platform gets it's value, not from the 'amazing' articles you can read here or anywhere on the net for that matter, but from the amazing graphene technology and lightning speed blockchain.
I have been an outspoken critic of Dan for just leaving but his superior blockchain technology and it's potential is the reason I'm here, along with the community atmosphere. The community atmosphere comes from the interaction from comments as opposed to the highly overvalued article. The sooner the reward pool for comments is implemented the better IMO.
For any community to thrive long term the system needs to be percieved as fair. I currently do not have that perception!