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Lets look at the case of me, @maticpecovnik.

I joined steemit about a month ago. I decided I wouldnt strive for money, instead, I would try to write about things I am passionate about. I was hopefull I would get some attention with the people with the same interests as me and we could build a nice little community discussing these topics. 

I started writing about my line of work which is Fusion and physics. I put a lot of effort and heart into what I wrote and I guess it showed because, soon, I was noticed by the @SteemSTEM community, which promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics topics. I was extremely grateful for the visibility these upvotes gave me and I decided I should work even harder. My followers continued to grow at a slow and steady pace and I got more and more consistent views on my posts.

All this attention and upvoting allowed me to reach about 700 SP with a vote worth of 0.15 SBD. Magnificent! Thank you all for supporting me. It trully means a lot.

So here is where it takes off...

Yesterday I am browsing the trending section. I notice some guy ranting about steemit. I must admit, I am a sucker for a good rant, because I feel I learn the most about something when I read rants about it. I dont know why, that is just how I am wired. He mentioned a guy named @haejin is taking almost 7% of the daily reward pool. I thought to myself, this guy must be a beast at steemit. I should check him out. He must have some amazing content.

I checked the guy out and his content was pretty much non-existent. Also his engagement in the community was non-existent. You might say: "But @maticpecovnik, he posted 8 posts just yesterday. You do that in a week." Well yeah. But I dont measure the engagement level by that. His posts are all the same. Literally half the words in his posts are copy-pasted from post to post. He changes only about 4 lines of text so the text fits the crypto-analysis he does.

I am not saying he is a bad analyst. He might be a great one. That is not my problem. 

My problem is he milks the steemit community dry. Lets just make a quick calculation. On average he makes 220 SBD per post. That is 8x220 = 1760 SBD per day. At current exchange rates between SBD and STEEM that is about 2500 STEEM per day. Right now he has 21,391 SP invested. This would mean that he would get all his SP in about 9 days. His account must be very young then... Wrong. I was scrolling through his posts and I got bored at posts that are 2 months old. His account is probably much older, and yes he has not been getting these rewards from the beggining. But he has been getting them for about a month. This means he got 220x30 = 6600 SBD. If we take the average exchange rate for the past month of 1 SBD = 5 STEEM this means he earned 33000 SP. That means that he has earned more in one month than he has invested back in the steemit platform.

Lets look at another example of his non-engagement. On his 8 posts he gets about 500 comments while he writes about 8 comments per day. Most of these are replies to his commenters. He is not looking out for content and starting engaging conversation.

Meanwhile most of the steemit community is writing about stuff they trully feel passionate about and they put true effort into their post, and they get paid bellow 1 SBD. Most of the SBD these users get is converted back into SP so they can help to grow the community. That is exactly what I did. Also I reply to every single one of my commenters, and I also comment on other peoples posts if I have something worth saying.

This line of thinking got me to the point where I wanted to do my due dilligence for the steemit community in the curation side, so I flagged 3 posts from the user @haejin, costing him about 0.4 SBD. This must have really hurt @haejin and his livelyhood because he decided he would take his revenge and flag 6 of my post which cost be about 100 SBD. That is about 170 SP right now, which hurts me quite a lot. That is a sixth of my current SP.

I guess this is steemit for you. Some people do their due dilligence. They invest in the platform, they write quality content and engage with the community by commenting and upvoting quality comments. And these people mostly get f****d. While other people abuse the curation system, spam posts without much effort going into them, get consistenly upvoted by the same whale and earn a shitload of SBD. When the curation system turns against them , they proceed with babyrage and decide to destroy other peoples posts just for the fun of it. Steemit. Curation. Very nice...

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I think there are some pretty easy ways around problems like this.

* Limit amount of rewarded posts to X per day. 

This number should be around X = 1, 2 or 3. More than 3 post per day should be considered spamming. You cant write more than 3 quality posts per day. Even 3 is stretching it.

* Make flags anonymous.

I got revenge flagged for essentially doing what this platform is designed for. Curation. This should not happen! It must not be allowed to happen.

Simple measures that could help the community a lot. Please upvote this post for visibility, so the real players can see my proposals. 

I dont care about the rewards so I will send 3/4 of all the SBD that is earned in this post to some people I think deserve more rewards on their post. I dont know which people will be the recipients yet, but I will decide soon. I will post the screenshots after I send it so you will be able to see I am true to my word. The remaining 1/4 I will keep and reinvest in SP which will allow me to keep rewarding quality posts.

EDIT: I guess nothing will be given out to others because I got flagged by @haejin again. RIP.