To be rewarded for who you are and what you have done instead of what you do is and will always be one of the issues with STEEM, in one way or another. We want high quality and we want people who puts in time and hard work. We want people to build their presence, their own brand and we want people to truly become influencers to some extent.

But, that is also the moment you're starting to be rewarded for who you are and what you have done, instead of what you are doing further on.

It would be fairly easy to post 2-4 times per day with rewards of 50-100 Steem(+SP) on each of the posts. That would boost confidence and it gives you tremendous motivation to grind. However, when you earn 5-10 Steem it's not easy to find that same level of motivation (at these low prices), which also makes it difficult to grind. Hence, less content being published.

I can easily say that my latest article is better than 50% of the content I've read during the last few hours, but the rewards doesn't seem to agree. Instead, I see the same authors earning 200-500% more rewards than me, just like it has always been. Regardless of the content they publish.

• That won't change.

And here's the thing, I don't complain about my article being rewarded just above $5 at the moment I write this. In fact, I am satisfied, like I have always been. Earning $5 though, when you've spent an hour, two or three...

And you see others out there spending ~15 minutes only to get 500% more than you. Well, that doesn't really boost the confidence of any content creator. Especially not when you see that exact thing happen multiple times per day, 7 days per week.