True!

Why I feel the same? A minnow with no wallet power seems to be without power. Although a good content has been posted the result is not that encouraging. Seems we are like a neglected lot. I saw many minnowees posted very good contents that went unnoticed. But there are many senior steemians around who pay attention and who have been very supportive to us the newbies. They gave us words of encouragements and guidance to move up the rank which I appreciate a lot. Thanks @malekalmsaddi. Have resteemed, upvoted and followed you. I believe this post can benefit us the minnowees ☺. See you around!

Thought provoking and as relatively a newbie i am totally bit confused too..
Thanks too

Yes thats so true!!!

can not agree. first of all, it is about post quality in massive scenario. most of the posts on steemit are junk. so let me know, but honestly, if you have 100 000 SP which is $10 per upvte and if you upvote your post, you get all rewards. you can do it 10 times a day, so it is 100 bucks a day. why should I give to others? Are you on steemit to blog? or are you here to make some profits? If you want quality blogs, you can find many other web places where people blog for free.
I gave this comment, and will upvote it with my SP. And I think that this is fare and right. I gave mu subjective opinion with explanation.

And some more:

When you say, rewards should be based on post timing with descending structure. who will upvote post with already many upvotes? did you think about that?

when you say 50/50, whales get more benefit, why is it better?

This is my opinion and I never intended to disgrace your post. Just my thoughts and nothing else. :)

Yesterday i saw someone just post a pics of a complain he had on a site  , and he had over 100$ 

While someone like me who takes his whole time to prepare something good can hardly get $1 

And most of the whales are not helping 
Leaving we minnows stranded

so true! 
I resteem your post

It is a rough reality I suppose.

I dont exactly understand the problem but it has something to do, that the system favors the rich and disadvantages the smaller. But this is a social network and when we want to change something, than we have to do it together since there are much more small fishes than whales. For example we could make a steemprotest. For one day, we don't use steemit. So that the responsibles change the system. 
I am sure, you have better ideas. So tell what are your ideas?

There is a Steemit fork for Russians. [Golos.io](https://golos.io/@dunsky).

I am there and here both. So there was an initiative of people who are giving back 50% reward from the users upvotes after the payout. They've done a script to send that payments automatically and a lot of people are using it there now. They just use special tag and special account resteems their posts so people who want to take part in this trail are joining. This is very good for minnows there.

![Whale Upvote from @dunsky](https://images.golos.io/DQmap5wSf8vQsAXkxBnWRqrciD6RSaSr9KokKnaT1sz7YJM/Dunsky_Upvote2.jpg)

so true! something really needs to be done!
i resteem your post

Great insights! Thanks for the share! Upped and resteemed!

i try and write original stuff and post interesting topics but i rarely make more than 0.02! :-( feel free to check out my posts, i'd be happy to swap follows with other active users so HIT ME UP, STEEMIANII!
have a chilled saturday,
HA
@humanauction

Just finally getting a bit of traction on my posts, hopefully all works out!

Hi I just found your post via resteem.
You make some good points and I agree the increase of people using pay for votes is a huge problem. I see the sellers of upvotes as noting more than an infestation of parasites.

However the problem is surmountable. 
We are the ones who have the real power to solve it.
I think I have found the solution and it took a very very long time and lots and lots of work.
I have done a few tests on other account but the proof will come when I start making my own posts in a few weeks.

it took me 3 seconds to confirm my view  when i looked at the  @boxmining  videos

Hi I just found your post via resteem.
You make some good points and I agree the increase of people using pay for votes is a huge problem. I see the sellers of upvotes as noting more than an infestation of parasites.

However the problem is surmountable. 
We are the ones who have the real power to solve it.
I think I have found the solution and it took a very very long time and lots and lots of work.
I have done a few tests on other account but the proof will come when I start making my own posts in a few weeks.

So true! 
The culture of appreciating good posts & content needs to come back.

i have noticed the same thing. i love art related post, so most of the time i visit the art tagged post. i have seen someone receiving more than 20-30$ on a post where he shared a art(!), which i wouldn't call an art, because a little kid draw things like that if the kid gets a pen in his hand. on the other hand i saw someone genuine whose art is really good but doesn't receive more than 10 upvotes which is not worth 0.10$..... i am so surprised, how does a scratch of pen gets 30$ and a really beautiful artwork doesn't receive 0.50$..........?

It was 50/50 originally.
I agree entirely, it should be changed back

I agree it is sad that there are some who have great content but don't get any traction or resteem nor any votes. 
The whales have indeed used their power to get more steem by having it as a paid service which is fundamentally not wrong since there is a dollar amount associated to it. 
Then you see selfie posts, or nonsense posts that are getting 20 30 dollars because they are close to whales.
I am glad that I am not the only one that felt this. 
Me I merely writing as a cathartic exercise for my depression.
If I get money well and good.
I am glad that

Good post @malekalmsaddi,I have resteemed your post

Great post and loads of constructive comments here too. The system is really skewed so that the steem rich get richer right now. Sad to see for a social network that set out to do it all differently but goes to show just how hard it is to build REAL equity into any economic system

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There are lots of ways to address the problem.  

1) Ban bots
2) recurve the upvote reward structure so that minnows have more upvote reward(ie a .01 upvote is now a .03 upvote) and whales have less
3)limit the amount you can upvote from one account to another account.
4)ban self upvoting


and probably the best solution

5) Start a new site with a SMT that does all this as a competitor to Steemit and let the best turd throwing monkey win.