Wow I really hope Steemit doesn't make the addiction of social media worse... It seems like it is having that effect tho.

This post has received a 22.97 % upvote from @boomerang.

<p>This post has received a 4.59 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @corina.</p>

I have not even been here a month and so far I haven't lost steam. At this point I get all happy to see others making a lot of money because I am in hopes that will be me someday. I am not one to give up easy and hope my determination gets me somewhere sooner than later. I am still trying to figure out if bots are a good thing or a bad thing. Some say good some say bad. I don't know but plan to keep posting. Steemit is addictive!
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Great post @corina

This place is a cross between Twitter, a rate my picture site and a role playing game! All very addictive but put them together and you turn into an obsessive lunatic! :) My wife now wakes up at 2am to find me tapping out a reply on my phone.

Obsessive or not, I still enjoy it.

Gaz

I didn't mean to come across as a jerk yesterday, hopefully you understand what I meant.  :)  I wasn't trying to make you look bad or put you down, just wanted to point out that your upvotes were valuable to those of us who need them ;)  I hope some day that more people upvote more content that's outside of their circle of friends.  Simply looking for a newbie once a day and giving them a 100% upvote for a good effort is all it takes, if all the whales and big fish did that every day, steemit would have a lot more good content because people would have more incentive to make it.

I appreciate your efforts @corina, hopefully together, we all can make steemit a better place for everyone.  Most importantly for some of us, a profitable one too.  Keep posting good content and I'll keep upvoting it, that's why I'm here.

Same thing is happening in kr community also

the issue here is newbies like us couldnt grow the account easily and whales like you should help community to grow up

Let say we share our upvotes 50% opvoting our post and 50% upvoting good (OT TRENDING, BOT UPVOTED) posts, what do you say?

Okay, so how did you get so much on this post? By many bidbot's, which is an argument from many that this is an abuse of the system, right? Are you losing money or is the key to invest more money than under $20? You made over $240 on this post by what many field is raping the payouts for the Planktons and Minnows you are talking about. I'm surprised badcat and badpuppy hasn't come by to flag it. 
Either way, at the end of the day it appears that there are those willing to do what it takes to "rape" the system and do what people need to do for them, right? 
 I admit to using bots, but nothing more than 1-5 SBD, I've worked very hard to post at least 1-4 posts a day, comment a lot, help planktons and minnows. i never got a curie or an upvote from a whale, but i work hard. 
we shall see what comes of all of this, many financial advisors have stated that this will not be the main location of a decentralized platform because of too many discrepancies, i can see these reasons becoming a reality on a daily basis. too many on the high take, meanwhile too many on the bottom.