I totally get your frustration - you're not alone! I'd be a part of it every week, regardless of the possibility of a prize - if only because I find new, hard working, quality Steemians to follow each time. I like adding in my corpses here and there and even if only 2 people check it out and tell me they like it then it's worth it to me.
I'd love to make this a real living-wage-job but shit, I write for free all by myself anyway and would be doing it for free on wordpress and getting zero views if I left here (this is what I'd been doing before)
I agree trickle down economics sucks a big one and I'd hoped for change here on the platform.. maybe it will come.. but until then I'll continue giving my minnow vote to your deadpost and interacting with all the others who follow your initiative.
I believe in this and not only because almost all my posts are or become "dead posts" LOL the 7 day window is not always fair and it's easy for a blog you slaved over for hours to get lost as soon as it's shared - sometimes mine die even before the payout date lol oh well!
Thanks for all your hard work @whatamidoing you are truly appreciated on here ! Hopefully some more dolphins and whales will notice! :)
You’ve been so awesome to know and I hope we have a chance to talk to each other, are you on discord?
I’m not able to join the other rat race, it just leaves such an awful taste in my mouth. I’ve been able to play this one simply because of all the great people I meet and this inkling thst I’ll be able to gather the resources to stop feeling it as a rat race, evencif that’s how they set it up, if I just bare my soul hard enough.
yes! I'm in that same boat. I can't do the rat race is a gradual soul suicide.. lol I am on discord amariespeaks#9425 hit me up over there anytime I'd love to chat more!