As a newbie I haven't purchased steem. I want to but it is very expensive and won't change my influance. I'd need to spend $US5000 to increase to a good upvote amount and I don't have that amount of cash.

There needs to be a better way as currently all the Steem bots are milking the system and not helping build new members accounts.

There are a lot of people leaving Steemit due to this. There needs to be a better way.

Maybe rewards for steem purchases i.e. 10% bonus on purchases.