I'm relatively new to steem but what I have notice ( and I admit that I might be missing something) is that the people I follow don't come up in my feeds page when they post. If steem is about community shouldn't they be the first to come up in my feeds. And if not, why have feeds at all? The stories on the main page are removed so fast because of the number of people posting that it is rear if anyone following someone would see the post of the people they are following there. I'm not attempting to put down steem (I think it's a great idea) but this aspect of steem can only benefit those who are already have the numbers or who is already a big name outside of steem. Being a gold bug I can tell you that my main reason to be here is not to collect steem, unless steem help me to communicate. Right now it's not helping. But on that note I just notice that you have made more steem on that one line comment than I have made on all of the posts on my blog (no to include resteemed post). There gotta be something wrong with that and make me think why spend the time to post. Looking forward to any reply or help you may give, and thanks for reading the last comment.