@greer184 I think you hit this one out of the park brother... Investing a couple thousand dollars will most certainly give you an edge, but I would argue that is the single biggest problem with the platform. Take a look at the "postees - not posts" who are consistently absorbing the entire reward pool and you will see what I mean. You can almost count them with both hands... I know that posting quality material is not necessarily a guarantee of success. It's a dam good start but far from being "the thing" that gets you there... Time and again I watch high quality posts sink into oblivion while "total crap" receives 10-20-50 SBD for the simple reason that they have a lot of SP... Sorry for the rant - needed to get that off my chest and I just happened to agree with you - mostly... Steem on...