I joined the site a few days ago and so far it looks awesome. I have been reading up on how the whole system works, and was wondering if someone could clear up a question for me.
From my understanding the value to a post comes from users up-voting it, but those "whales" if they don't like your niche content, than pretty much you won't ever get any rewards. I know this is getting somewhat reduced in the next update and there should be more content creators getting paid.
But pretty much I am wondering if getting a lot of unique views to your steemit post have any intrinsic value? Since new users that would see the content from promoting it on 3rd party sites, can't up vote your content anyway. It shows not enough steam-power to upvote for new people that join. So even if I do promote on my Twitter and start blogging on here, the users join and can't upvote anyway.
Q1 : Is the monetary value assigned to a post purely votes from users with high steam power? Or is there a formula that includes posts, unique views ect.
Q2. What do new accounts need to do before they can upvote on content?
Just asking this, because my friend made a new account and his post got $3.00 and still said he didn't have enough steampower. I deposited $20 via bitcoin , so I didn't have the issue.
Like any users that would join for the first time, would be really frustrated with that issue. So I pretty much would like to know if there is any tips I could post on the bottom of my posts to help answer that question for new people. If the only solution is to deposit, than that is pretty unfortunate.
Any help with these 2 questions is greatly appreciated :)
