I want to start of by saying that I'm new here. I understand what that implies. No followers, no rep, little steem power. Getting started and obtaining those things is a chore, and well it should be.
However once you get the followers, the rep, and the steem power. You can post things that are low quality. Even incorrect and full of wrong information and still get paid more than someone who has a good article that took a lot of time researching and composing it..
Example links.
here is a good post by leprechaun about a really bad flood that happened with videos and lots of information. and how he would buy shovels to help if his video did well.
https://steemit.com/photography/@leprechaun/results-of-heavy-rain
Her is a post by bullionstackers. he posts good things. I follow him and will continue to follow him. Some of his animal pictures are great. but I came across a new one of his about how awesome Scottish Terriers are, with a completely different dog in the pictures.
https://steemit.com/k9/@bullionstackers/top-popular-k9-scottish-terrier-in-original-day-photography-series-91
I don't want to single bullion out. As I said he usually posts good articles. This type of thing happens often. And as I said bullion has been here in the trenches doing this for a lot longer than all us new people, he deserves a little slack yes.
But when people who are new here see those kinds of things happen. It can be discouraging.
There is talk that the hardfork will change things by giving people one 3X powered vote every 24 hours. And it should spread the earning around. I'm not so sure, but I hope so. I mean the whales vote will be worth 3 whales votes at that point or am I wrong? So sure a new person has one 3 cent vote once a day instead of all 1 cent votes. but wouldn't then the whale have a 600$ vote if he had a 200$ vote before? I tried to search for information on the hardfork. but it is buried and I cant search by most recent in steem search.
I like steemit and I hope that the changes and adaptations it makes are for the better. and that it eventually finds itself being one of the top social media sites on the internet. I will stay here and make posts that pay out 50 cents as long as I feel they are worth other people looking at, and to support the other people posting good stuff and not getting any replies or payout. Even to support the people who are posting good stuff, and are getting paid for it like they deserve! Once again, bullionstackers, sorry for pointing out your post, nothing at all against you. I will still follow and upvote your things and encourage the good posts you make! Your post was just the easiest one today to make an example of and in the comments you acknowledged it was the wrong dog. Which was the good thing to do..