Blurt!
Every community isn't perfect. And this one is still growing. For one am glad there is no down vote button.
When we join we get a welcoming from our introductory post. After that we have 2 option that go together. Either be a curator or an author primarily as there is more. For newbies there most challenge will be try to get up votes. Or to build up their bp. For those with enough finances can easily power up while those not work their way up.

As someone ones said no one owes you anything. Yes its tough when your contents don't bring the vote you want.
But on most cases I've noticed the quality determines the votes when it comes to the whales and also personal appeal.

As much as no one owes you anything we still have everyone trying to work to help others in doing so helping themselves by organizing contest and challenges all so if you feel you aren't getting votes those can help grow your bp.
I personally feel its a wonderful community that my first month even though I wasn't getting much strong votes on my art my goal was set to build my bp and reach to the top to be a curator
With the contest organized and so forth in my 3 months stay I earned 2000blurt.
Though for some minor financial strand and issues with my gadget I had to power down but at least making sure i could generate a replacement.

Thank you @megadrive and founding members of blurt community for a platform with chance to succeed we grow it together.
Blurt to the moon
Coal or no coal have your goal straight take the initiative and you will find even going by the rules you can succeed.

For demarkymark I would say you are free to voice an opinion but repeatedly voicing with insults its like you are in fire complaining about fire yet all you have to do is walk out of it. Comparison will never bring to a conclusion we should choose what we want and stay away from what we don't .
This got longer than I expected
thank you all