Now before I start ranting and raving I fully accept I'm not in the same league as @papa-pepper in fact we are probably not even on the same planet in terms of community stature and level of output. I just wanted to make that clear before anyone starts saying: <em>"Oh come on Pete, you're not comparing like for like."</em>

So you think you're being shafted by @ned along with @justinsunsteemit and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_(Internet)">flame war</a> currently raging? Steemit (IMO) has been shafting users for ages. A lot (Not all) of what I post is top quality, I'm not some twat posting crappy Dtube videos of a donkey farting a rainbow and ten million nodding dogs upvoting it. It's content that takes a couple of hours to produce, formatted and designed to gain some traction and yet the rewards have been on the whole pitiful, to say the least. I came back to Steemit (Steem) after a few comments on Twitter and lobbed a couple of pebbles into the lake just to see how many ripples it created. As per usual my mate @steevc has been kind enough to vote and comment on everything I've done so when I looked at my Blog on Steem this morning I was pretty pissed, to be honest.
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So I'm 82 votes behind papa-pepper which isn't much, 1 comment behind and a whopping $14.37 adrift! These witnesses that are begging you to vote for them want to ensure low earners like me earn even less! I've seen others in the community say it and I'm sorry but I have to agree. There's something rotten here and I certainly don't see much fairness going on. Now I already know the answer I'm going to be given on this one: <em>"Pete mate, sadly the people who voted for you have piss poor voting power."</em> well I'm sorry, that's not good enough. IMV if you want to be a Witness you need to start looking after the users and not just a small circle of top earners. The Next fork that happens, start making changes that anything over 200 votes earns a bonus or something do something to make new people want to use the platform instead of raping my CPU cycles to <b>Mine Steem</b> for others benefits.

Maybe Justin should take over, that way the rewards might start to be distributed a bit more fairly? After Justin has had his cut obviously.

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<b>Rant Over</b>.
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