I believe that steemt should create a feature
Whereby the reputation score of a steemit user
Can also determine how much their upvotes
Will worth because it is not every steemit users
That have the capital to buy plenty steempower
Or to lease huge steempower
Some steemit users have good contents that is
Very good for the steemit platform and some
People would really have loved to upvote
Such good contents but they cannot do that
Because their upvotes is not effective due to
Their low steempower
That is why in many situations we do see some people create worthless contents and they still
Get alot of upvotes just because they have
Friends with plenty steempower or some just easily create another steemit account and Buy
Steempower to the account then used the account to upvote contents created by their alternative accounts which is not good for the steemit platform
Yes well thats where steem represent a picture of "real life". All politics and 1%-er lobbyright ... nothing different from washington or brussels there.
It works like pop-music : if you buy 100.000 of your own songs you are in the top charts, and the visibility will act to get you sold to a few 100.000 or a million more which is profit
"small" people can't do that, i share your concern completely, i often find it very demotivating to try and put time into it .... i post a picture of my dishes it gets the same as the fluffiest picture of my cat ... i spend five hours on a post, it gets one fifth of something i type out in two minutes ...
its VERY de-motivating and imo one of the main reasons why there are so many stale accounts and accounts that go silent after a few weeks or months
So plankton has to stick together, just like the upper class does, the other problem is the price right now does not allow for plankton to help each other out (unless you get hundreds of votes on a post) which is why i still suspect it's a whale move to stay in power.
reputation is more like a display of how appreciated you have been over time and posts have a VERY short period in which you can get paid, about a magazine's worth of time i suppose.
It's important to comment a lot, and make full comments really, not just "nice post, plz upvote" as i'm sure you've seen around but even then, at current prices it takes a LOT of time and effort before you see something moving in your wallet, right ?
the way reputation works however would still not help since if you are a cryptonnaire, you can buy 50 accounts and vote yourself up with 100000 steem power each and your reputation will be over 70 in no time at all
but i totally hear you and i share your concern, it is VERY hard to find an entry point and even harder to sustain and keep it up day after day until its worth it. Like the answer above says in much more friendly words : it's an elitist racket where a few rich keep eachother in the money.
No different from your global megacorp and holdings each owning 200 companies pretending to compete while they don't they have an absolute monopoly and they just do it julius caesar way : pretend, then divide et impera
but you cant let that stop you, there's a few decent people hiding up there too, but they dont dare make too much noise, people tend to like the loudmouth with the big word and the strong arm
just look at the last american elections lol (not that hillary was much of a choice ofcourse)
see what i mean ? here i go again writing essays ... i think almost no one ever gets to the bottom of my posts