What a wise thought, my friend. What I see here how we can earn much steem to get noticed. I stalked to newbies post and they did good but after long waiting the post got nothing. Basically, people who joined steemit will, at least, get a reward even small number. We must understand about their feeling, and we must be sure that they are doing a lot to create a good content. I am not blaming the users who buy the upvote, I tend to see they are trying to get their post noticed. For us as minnow it is not easy to get upvote from the influence users even our content is acknowledged. We are not yet to come in comfort zone, we must work harder to find it out. If we want to create steemit like a firm arena, there should be friendly welcome to every users. Help them to feel this platform like home. That what I thought, my friend.