RE: It doesn't go as far, Anymore
Everyone without that has to rely on luck alone.
Luck? So good quality content, even by a new user never gets upvoted, ever?
There's hundreds of posts that have made money, simply by the content they posted, and not all of them had steem power.
I came here with $3.50 of free steem power when I joined. I didn't get lucky. Look at my posts, many of them are $0.00 payout or only less than $5
If you write good content, eventually people take notice, but not right away. Sometimes you have to be patient.
What's weird, is that people spend more time complaining how steemit can't work, and all they do is get upvoted by other people with no steem power, who also think it can't work.
Who are you trying to attract with posts like this? The whales? Do you think they will upvote content that says the system is unfair?
I'm not a whale. But I did go viral one time. I never expected it to happen, but it did. But it wasn't a post complaining about how badly steemit is designed and how no one can do well on here.
P.S. Don't shoot the messenger. I volunteered to be the messenger here. :)
Well, as far as whether good content is enough to get upvotes, I believe the record speaks for itself.
Day after day, I see tons of quality content get overlooked. And I'm not the only one on Steemit who has noticed this and brought it up. I will grant you that most of the super successful posts are of good quality, but little else distinguishes those posts from those that are really good, but go unnoticed.
As I said above, I look forward to seeing how Steemit deals with these issues.
And as for who I'm hoping to attract to my posts, that would only be those who are not afraid to stare truth in the face, which would apparently include yourself, since you're, y'know, here.
In the meantime, you should take a page from your own book and not shoot the messenger.