One thing that tends to drive people away is the high expectations. Most people come for the money and when they do not get it they get upset. People also spam the comment box asking for follow backs and upvotes instead of working on the quality of their post.
But at the same time seeing a $0.04 payout on a post that took you weeks to compose can be frustrating. At this point what are minnows to do? Use bots? How do they attract the whales to their post?
Frustrating as it seems, that’s the reality. It takes a lot of good blogs before people with reputation follow you. People who want to be paid faster should get a job.
I never did anything to attract a whale. They came slowly.
As for bots, their vote is always worth less than you pay them. Let’s say you pay the bot SBD 2. That’s like paying $8 in real money because SBD isvworth $4 each. The bot now votes you $3. That means you get $1.5 worth of steem and sbd 1.5 worth $6. The total of $7.50 is now split 75% for you and 25% for the bot. Finally you collect only $5.62. Bad deal.