Hello guys and welcome to a new article, in these last few days I explained how failure is so much easier than success on Steemit. There are a couple of reasons for that! I highly recommend you to read the article, you will find many useful pieces of advice and tips (https://steemit.com/steemit/@fancybrothers/how-to-suck-at-steemit).

Many users (Including me at some point) think that Steemit is not fair! Well, that's true but to a certain extent, in this post, I will explain why and how to profit from the situation.

Before you begin judging everybody and everything you need to understand a couple of things. Many of the trending posts you find are not really that exceptional but only because they got so many upvotes. Why is that?

The Era of Bid bots:

Although many whales are experts in using bid bots, many new users don't know about them. Well bid bots are accounts with lots of voting power, you pay them an amount of SBD or steem and they divide their votes between the buyers. Theoretically, you can make money with bid bots but you are missing the whole point of using them in the first place! Bid bots are used to promote the posts until they hit the trending pages so that the post is more likely to get viewed and voted, 'steembottracker.com ' is the best site out there to choose a bid bot. You will find many choices and different offers but that's not our subject.

Honestly, I'm against the random use of bid bots because so many garbage posts make it to the trending page, I mean you find a 200-word article talking about absolute "shit" with 100 USD and you're busting your ass to deliver some good content and nobody gives a fuck? That's totally unfair but sadly true, just like Kim Kardashian, everyone is praising her while those who are changing the world (for the better) don't get any credit, that's the same concept just on a different scale, accept it and move on!

I'm not an angel, I've used them before, I just want to make more money and increase my reputation like everyone else.

It works at the beginning but in the long run, you will lose money and readers, the last part is 1000 times worse because this is a blogging site, after all, we want people to read our content.

I even noticed a movement rising in the last weeks against the use of bid bots, the only time you should use bid bots is when you feel that you have written a really good post and it needs to be on the trending page, but trust me on this one people have high quality standards especially whales.

The whole point is to know the difference between a good written, well-deserved post and a bad-boosted one, whales love good content and we owe them for any kind of support, just make your posts worthy enough and someone will recognize sooner or later but it will take some patience.

United Killer Whales:

Many whales on Steemit support each other and that's perfectly normal ! because if you are a big investor or a great author, you want to be recognized on Steemit in order to continue creating good content or investing money, in both cases you are contributing in the growth of the platform. It's good for Steemit!

But It gets worst when low-quality content is supported consistently. Whales become richer and the platform loses many users. @haejin is a famous crypto-analyst on the platform, he posts about 10 posts with 200 word and gets a minimum of 100 USD in each post, that's 20.000 a week (I am not criticizing, I am just stating facts). It just seems unfair, he sure has some good analytics but the amount of effort spent and the earnings are just crazy! many others spent hours making one good article and they get 0 credits and the guy posts 10 each day! You wonder how he gets so many earnings? Well, I noticed (I might be wrong) that one huge crypto-investor keeps voting him consistently regardless of the content of the post.

In other cases, many whales know each other in real life, so they support each other every time. If you are not one of these guys, your only way to the top is creating good content and attracting whales who really want to promote the platform before everything.

There's is even communities that look for good content to support them like @curie, @steemiteducation, and @steemstem, so it's not always a "jungle" like you think, we have a lot of great people here.

The Bright Side Of Things:

Talking from a personal experience, I didn't get huge earnings on Steemit, maybe I will not make anything from this post but that never was my goal, I have a decent job as a doctor and I'm totally satisfied with my financial state but of course I want to earn extra bucks and in the long run, I want to get rich but you know what's more important ? readers and followers, let me convince you..

Steemit is still a new project, it's been in beta like forever but I see a bright future for this platform, you know why Facebook had such a huge success? because it's a social media, the key word here is social.

Steem is not just a simple coin like any other crypto, we're the only blockchain that creates its own traffic. If the price skyrocket, you have pretty good chances of becoming rich easily ! When that happens, those with more readers will be the most successful not the ones that used to make more! Be consistent, write good content and don't ever get discouraged! You will be appreciated before you know it.

Many successful bloggers, at first, spent hours creating quality content and they got only a couple of views? Did they get discouraged? Absolutely not! they kept working hard over and over until they obtained a good audience.

Have you ever heard of the snowball effect? It's when something keeps increasing at a faster and faster rate over time, just like rolling a snowball down a hill. This concept could be applied on Steemit. At first, It's going to be a long way towards success but it gets easier over time, and then when you get recognized your earnings will increase dramatically. Thus, don't get discouraged if you're having a rough start.

No matter how unfair the platform looks, it's really not! it's just how things work, my advice is to be patient and seek followers/readers instead of a couple of bucks, that's what really matters in the long run.

Thank you for taking the time to read my article and feel free to leave an upvote if it was helpful, also I'm more of "a science guy": I write on different subjects from time to time here is my last article: