I am glad this is coming from you and it can't be qualified as a 'minnow' rant. The plain truth is to make it on Steemit regardless of the brain you are coming with, you have to know a couple of dolphins or whales that will keep supporting you or you will come in with big investment to buy big steem power and votes.

I love steemit but I don't think this problem is going away. Steem is definitely not number one on @ned's mind and the witnesses and their supporters are the owners of the voting bots. Like you said we can't have a solution until the minnows vote start to matter and our trending page is not populated by bots d post. I always wonder why trending as to do the amount and not the number of people upvoting the post.

I wish Steemit should be saved as soon as possible as a lot are leaving and and some are discouraged to the point of not been able to come up with a good post or settle for posting shitty post instead because it doesn't seems to matter much any more.