Hey @acidyo, while I had no idea who you were in the very beginning when I joined Steemit. You have inspired me from the very start on this platform and showed what the possibilities are on the platform.
While the quality of a post is unrewarded at most times, with curation communities like @ocd, @curie or @steemstem (and probably other curation communities I am unaware of), these authors will have a chance for a 'fair' reward. The curators do hard work to search for these type of posts.
Contributing high quality but more importantly, unique content to Steemit is mandatory for the platform to grow. This is the reason why I have started the project @xposed. While there are communities like @promo-mentors, @thewritersblock and more upcoming projects that help new Steemians to get familiar with the platform, I hope to become a bridge between all these communities with @xposed, to combine the knowledge and spread the love from all these communities for Steemit in order to motivate, inspire new and old Steemians to get it back to ethical proportions. It's still a journey for me to discover who is ethical and who is not as people/communities claim to help the platform while their focus is more about helping out themselves to get the highest ROI as possible.
With Steem 'so low' people forget that it is still high compared to last year. I have joined when Steem was peaking to about 8 USD and haven't stopped posting new content almost every day. While I'm still setting up a base to understand the platform better every day, it sometimes is demotivating seeing so many people leaving or powering down just because they're sick of the circle voting going on and the low ass Steem price.
Cheers,