no, they act like a cartel. similar to the haejin situation, he has people on his side too who will refuse to engage your content.
There are networks and they act like scientologists, they declare people "suppressive persons" to their content, scam and disinformation. I can't quite tell if it's russians or the fbi, but I have seen evidence for both. Just look into what v4vapid upvotes and resteems, ie disobedient media he hyped like they were jesus, while my basic investigation uncovered they are obvious disinformation.
I have been gaining followers, but i see no reason to think they actually see my content ever or if they are bots/shills. I have 230 followers now, my posts get 20 views and 0 comments that could not be made by monkeys.
They warn you off from pointing out what they are doing in comments with heavy flag downvotes, even if you didn't do anything flagworthy and there always seems to be another dozen or so 15SP accounts come out of the woodwork to personally attack you and do the dirty work.
This results in the topics of conspiracy, pizzagate and 9/11 truth being effectively censored and/or flooded with crap. It happens to every new event, they just flood the topic with crap, upvote themselves and anyone else who doesn't have a big wallet is marginalized no matter the quality of their content.
I challenge anyone to read my recent pizzagate article, it is the most authoritative post on the entire internet on the topic and I can't get a single real person to comment or to upvote more than .06.
You tell me what's going on. I worked for weeks on my pizzagate article, it is the result now of years of research and study. Worth less than a dollar on steemit.
Reading through your post now. It is such a long read thought it best to comment first...
Sorry to hear of the reaction you have received on your content. My feeling is that getting one's following together is critical. Then we can grow together turning those penny paycheques into something more stubstantual. With that in mind, consider yourself followed. 😉
Thanks, that is one encouraging element, I have gone from 150 to 250 followers in the last month. But with no upvotes or actual reads I wonder what that even means.
People want quality, that means actual content. Despite engaging with about 20 people over the last day on this and other threads, not a single new upvote on my blog and most people didn't upvote my comments either. I don't get it.
There is very little organic, real engagement on the platform inside of posts themselves even on popular authors' posts, so don't be too surprised. And yes, most followers are going to be bots or some other non-person entity, and even if they are real people, 90% of them won't be active in a year, if past trends hold true.