THE PAIN

When I took up the task of Steemit, I never had any experience about the concept of blogging nor the need to producing content that would be rewarded.

As a matter of fact, I only took pleasure in making creative works and posted them on Facebook. The likes and comments I got was enough of the satisfaction I needed.

Now I am here, almost a month old and my second week of active blogging.

A lot has been learnt and unlearnt. Concepts have been created, such as the minnow support project as well as project BIG wave with the aid to helping the minnows in the system grow.

These are nice ideas, but as we all know ideas are the state of mind. Without any plausible efforts, it will only be a great pop that died in the path of time and lack of motivation.

My point is, I have noticed that irrespective of these projects, there has been a serious lacuna in the development of the minnows in the community.

Reasons is simple, the structure of Steemit is created in the form that once you are a Whale, it becomes too hard a thing to look down from the Olympian height to help others climb up the system.

Whale

Even more pitiable, is the fact that they created a Steem voter that encourages the minnows to upvote the post of the whales in other to gather peanuts in form of curators reward, while those being helped end up with the whole Steem. Whether content is good or not, they make good money through their reputation, that is all that matters.

Come to think of it, how many of these persons as a way of kind gesture decided to give back to those who gave to them?
A handful. If at all there was a handful.

Emphatically, my stand point is that the whole structure is aimed at favouring the lords of the platform, and the tiny minute gains are left to be fought for by the minnows. It is a problem.

Minnow

This at all is not encouraging, because you get a situation where by someone will make post that is worth what it is worth, only not to get the deserved audience he/she deserves because such person does not command such attention.

Quite demoralizing is the fact too that one would spend so much hours of hard work on an article only to be seen by just 3 persons and receives zero or no cents for them. I am not talking about the dollars here. That will be a topic on its own.

You also have a situation where you read a post and discover that it made over $100 and the begging question would be, what exactly did this person write that I have not done or even done better. It is a problem.

So bad is this, that a user had to express his dissatisfaction in strong words when he saw a post by @molokwu.
Calling him an idiot for what seemed to him an unfair measure, when he saw a story of his that earned over $80.

Trust me, I understand his grievance. Too well I would say, but then I guess his approach to airing his view was a strong and wrong one. But then, if he wrote about it and nobody read it or gave audience to it, you will discover that the thin line that holds rationality would be lost and it will not be out of place to call some persons idiot.
It is a problem.

THE PROPOSAL

Now, my aim is not to highlight these problems and let seven hells discover the appropriate solution.

It is my desire to see that some if not all of these solution should be applied to encourage greater participation of both minnows and Whales.

1. The resteem project.

Now this is simple, the idea to to create a platform where these whales are to resteem good post buy the minnows. I think @minnowsupport has already has a project in that light, but theirs is restricted to just Thursdays of resteem.

If an avenue could be created for these whales to resteem post of minnows as a point to duty, the growth will be swift and progressive.

Now I understand that bane that there are thousands of minnows out there, so how would these whales know the exact post with good content to resteem without the whole stress of reading each and every post on their feed. That brings me to the second point.

1. Robot Dictate content

It is simple. There should be a pre-notice by the robot programme which could easily direct the audience the worth of a particular post. It is a better way of telling the audience that based on the content created in this post, this post should be worth the while of read and upvote. Instead of the post call comments we get on post from the robots telling us how undervalued it is.

1. Whales as Guilders
   

The Guilders scheme should be created. This you get these persons who are well experience in the platform play the big brother role to these minnows.

Steemit has made it better that you could actually write about any of your interest on the topic icon. These guilders who have actually distinguished themselves in a particular topic should be manned as the directors of those topics to see that minnows post and thoughts are in conformity to the ideas and desires of such topic.
That way, one mustn't necessarily write about bitcoins or ethereum, in other to be voted on in a post.

1. Hard fork strictures
   

I would suggest that the post of an individual should be reduced to one in every 24 hours. This way, the assault of post by minnows would be reduced and aid them to creating better contents too. As well as the cashed being amassed by the whales would go a long way to equitably distributing it among every one. Comments on post should be encouraged the more and have attractive curation rewards.

To avoiding the stress of reading so much a lengthy post, I will have to stop here.
Questions on these points could be asked on the comment box and I will give further clarification.

I am not expecting this post to make any dollar. My humble plea, is that it should be resteem for the concerned parties to see and make suggestions.

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