Yep. I have had a few people come to check Steemit out and not even sign up because as soon as they looked at the trending page they thought that all there was on here was shit. Granted, this was when Jerry was going strong and all the flag war shit was happening. I haven't looked at trending in a year or so but that was the way it was then.

They would see a great article make $.50 and a piece of shit make $175. It got pretty discouraging for them right of the start.