Then why haven't your "kiss ass" posts made anything?

The voting isn't rigged, merely people who were here earlier got the attention of the Whales, slowly more people are getting their attention, otherwise it wouldn't be sustainable.

@infovore @guerrint @venuspc were not here early and they are getting the attention of the whales and their posts are widely diverse.

The attitude you display is exactly the attitude I describe in my article, you made 3 "hits" and then you got disillusioned because every article you write isn't a hit. You have written some good stuff that hasn't had any attention, however moaning about it will get you nowhere.

I have helped quite a few people on here, usually via the slack and a couple of them are improving their skills and earnings. Soon they will get the attention of the Whales.

Your Steem articles haven't worked and your early articles didn't gain traction when you attempted to serialise them. So go back to the drawing board and come up with some new ideas, you're competing with at least 500 new people per day, so get creative.

You may say I was lucky to be here early, however I quit my job and put every spare moment I had into Steem for almost 2 months. In that time, I didn't know 100% I was going to get a payout on July 4th, I also didn't know if I'd be able to sell my Steem even if I did.

I took a gamble and it paid off, I paid my rent and through perserverance, analysis and plain old skill, I managed to get the attention of a few Whales and they upvote me.

I've never met any of these people offline, and I don't pay them, so I can only assume they upvote me because I consistently produce, quality, original content.

You may do as well, but the fact is, it's harder to get their attention now, because they're more people, but as I mentioned above:

That's life.

*Cg*