It has been very discouraging to see the spammers and copy pasters making more money than me even though I upload 99.5% original content. Steemit has some serious issues moving forward and seperating out and promoting the drops of champagne from the full blast fire hose of piss is one of them. The fleeting moments that an individual post is visible before it is burried in the pile is another. If you don't hit it big in the first 15 minutes after you post that's all she wrote. That's no big deal if you're a copy paster you just pump out another ten drivel filled shit post and hope one pays out but if you spend hours writing, editing, and proof reading it is a very big deal.