Hmm, well, I guess I agree on the part that it is good that those who want to get more than they give is out, but I still think rewards should be reflected by how many has ever upvoted your things, ot just in 7 first days, for example (but maybe you know the reasoning behind it.

Like now, I want to upvote this video to contribute to you for making it, but it is meaningless, because I will loose SP and you will still not get any reward (I will just for he number, but I don't understand the rule)

I am not a fan of googles or youtubes ethics and I have been treated like crap by them, when some people commercialized on my video content, but sometimes youtube is also gives way, way more back to small quality content creators than steemit. At least around 2015.

As an example I then uploaded a video on youtube and in the first 3-4 weeks it paid nothing and got few views but they started to trickle in because the algorithm saw that people kept watching (high audience retention) so it kept gradually sending in more people (fair matric an practice that is today very different unfortunately). After 3-5 weeks youtube sent in lots of views through the suggested video function because they then knew that the video was legit and popular among most people they sent in. It got maybe a few hundred or a thousand likes and the views made me about 1000 dollars per month in 2 months.

On dtube the same video would have given me 0.000 something dollars even if everyone on the whole steemit platform saw the video after week 3 and loved it.

In such cases I honestly think that steemit sucks out the content creators way more than youtube. Youtube gives 50% to the creators, provided that they are over the threshold (my videos were before the threshold). But any video that gets that big usually brings the user over that threshold by itself, so it is still fair in that way.

On steemit, when I see some people have hundreds or thousands of upvotes on an article that still only paid a few dollars, either because upvotes don't pay after 7 days or more or because the people who voted only gave 0.00 something per vote, I'm not sure I think it is fair,, but I don't know what the logic and thinking is behind the 7 day rule.

When I see others have 100 upvotes or so and get 100 dollars for these upvotes over and over again because the d-tube user and blocktrades user always vote on them no matter what they post and that gives 40-50 of those dollars and maybe brings attention too, then I don't know what I think.

Blocktrades, fine, but the dtube user, shouldnt that split its votes and rewards over videos evenly after how many views the videos get over time for example? How many views they get should probably be a good meter of contributing something to the community? Not always of course, but a better meter than knowing the owners of dtube and blocktrades. :D

I also saw some girl who posted food videos on steemit and youtube, and I guess her youtube pay per video to be at least 500-5000 usd per year per video for the life span of the videos or at least some years, which means tens of thousands per year.

On d-tube it is harder and takes longer to post, you can't schedule videos or que many videos and she got 5-50 dollars per lifetime per video and I understand why it makes no sense for any quality creator like that who made it on another platform to continue on steemit and I think it is too bad, because the system of steemit has so, so high potential if it was just made a bit more fair like removing the 7 day rule.
Going to bed now, I really hang around here a bit to try it a bit more, and because I like how people here communicate with each other in a "real" way, but I really do think that the steemit platform has a long way to go to be fair for all content creators.

Good night mate!