Great job collaborating on this topic. I have had the same experience telling people about Steemit. It is very intimidating to people and I even have to overcome mental barriers when preparing for a post. Sometimes it almost feels like a research paper and I know that if I don't spend several hours on a post it will almost have no chance for a payout. Then when I spend 4 or 5 hours on a post there still might not be a good payout. Also I have had several friends join who I know outside of Steemit but then have quit because they didn't make anything and felt rejected. Oddly enough some of them still create content on YouTube where they don't earn anything essentially because their views are so low. Another person still post heavily on Instagram for $0. One of my YouTuber friends said "It feels like walking on egg shells over there." Don't get me wrong. Steemit is awesome and still evolving but for people who are outside of the crypto world I almost feel like it would be like saying, "You might make money if you write this 20 page research paper on quantum physics and a whale decides to upvote it." It causes a lot of people to have paralysis by analysis and they are always getting ready to get ready. Either that or it is easier for them to just forget about it and not face the posibility of rejection. I feel that that curration and commenting would be a much easier on ramp for everyday social media users but to earn anything they would have to power up a lot of money for it to be worth their time so that isn't feasibly for the vast majority of people.
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I know there is Cybil-aversion amongst the developers, but at some point rewards and earnings need to be more accessible. I'm talking about an almost assured penny or more payout for every vote.
This will happen with a rise in the price of steem. As the price of steem increases, the value of the steem released every day in SBD will bloom and each vote will be worth more. Although, dumbing things down to where every post earns a few cents, would likely rob the top end and kill incentive to stay and work hard to reach it.
There is no way to assure any particular reward value for a vote. That is a function of the total size of the reward pool, which has generally been shrinking rapidly along with the price of STEEM. In an extreme extrapolation of this ongoing trend even whale votes would be worth nothing.
Thank you smooth for going through and voting on comments. It doesn't happen as often and it is unfortunate. Not that it should be expected, but a nice participation reward.