OH MY GOODNESS! This is the BEST post I have seen on any platform period. All true and should be heeded, or else Steemit runs the risk of becoming a graveyard of ignored and abandoned quality posts and troves and troves of shit posts. 

You say, "Steemit is not a unicorn farting rainbow cash". You can say that again! I am a witness to that but I will keep being consistent with posting and that of good quality, whether a post is a long, researched post or a meme. I always go for quality. 

And as far as too many people only voting to kiss ass, it really is discouraging to authors, like myself, who work to create quality posts because it tells me that the massive upvotes will only come when my steem power is up enough to where my upvote is worth more to people leaving comments.

This site could so upset sites like Reddit if the true content creators were given a chance, whether they have 100 SP or 100,000 SP. Capitalism in this platform will not sustain the platform. Minnows need to have a chance to have some level of success, if they are truly deserving and put out good content. Think about it. If a whale puts out a post and that post is voted up by 1,000 minnows and say 1 dolphin, then how much would the post earn without the minnows?

I have some serious ideas for the next hardfork, for sure, but I doubt that I'll submit them because I just don't believe it would do any good.

I'm very discouraged.

But, yeah, thanks for posting this.