It is hard for me to understand some people that do complain about not earning anything other than a couple of pennies. Most of the time when I see those post, then look at there comment stream, not much at all, no comments on other peoples post, and very few if any votes on their audience members comments. So of course I move on.
On the post with a lot of votes, and no comments I move on because the only people the author could get interested in their post was vote bots.
On a post with only a few votes, and maybe 5 comments, I read, if I like I vote, if the comments to the author were good, and he voted for one or two, then I will help his/her vote by voting the comments also.
Bots are not needed, whiners are not needed, steemit needs the people that have something to say, or share, or who want to be social, or just want to be audience members. Through our interactions we make a difference in many lives, least of which is our own life.
How do we get rid of the bots my friend? that I would love to know, I am "clean" now and want nothing to do with them, except when I want to upvote someone else with more than my vote value.