I hear you man. It's so very flawed. It's by design made so that the cashed up whales have actually more visibility than anyone else, plus when people see lots of money in the payout for a post they'll pile in to get a bit of curator kickbacks. Don't make me laugh with the curation as well, it's so pitiful what you get plus you are really very restricted with how many things you can upvote. If you vote more than about 10 times a day you run out of voting power. Not that your 3 or 15 SP vote amounts to anything to begin with, anything below $0.06 or something like that you don't even get a payout at all. So either somehow get in the good graces of a cashed up whale, or somehow get like 1000 people to upvote you that aren't whales. To do the former, basically join one of the many endlessly circlejerking cryptocurrency discussions and hype around how Steem and Ether are the best things ever, and to do the latter you're shit out of luck because no one will ever see your post (I saw it on Reddit, funny enough), because either it's completely buried within minutes or they just like you are more busy devising schemes how to make it at all on this platform rather than actually interacting with it. I'm actually surprised how civil it is here still, considering how lax and non-existent the moderation is. Maybe the fact that you need to fork out 5 Steem to get an account or sign up with your phone number and wait forever discourages the 4chan trolls. I don't know. Maybe I don't see the horrendous shitfights because of how bad the tags work, and the fact that everyone talks non stop about cryptocurrencies.

And people complain about how bad Reddit is.