Great comment man but I got to point out that your own reflection on the experience here spells out what reality is here.
That almost all Life has escaped this place. Which is why rewards on comments long ended.
On my own experience I reflect when I joined too. I read some posts by @suesa that triggered a thoughtful response from me. Then not long after I got a $10 upvote from @blocktrades that made me think, "shit this thing might just be the real deal"
Anyway that was back before blockhead turned completely evil and decided to only leech money through the services that '@ned the fat toad' granted him a monopoly on. Because when that blocktrades service launched, even suesa stopped getting shit all from him and it essentially saw her get pissed and eventually leave the platform!
So to me that's the failure of this place in a nutshell. It was really organic with the rewards early on.. then sharks said,
"fuck that, my winnings don't need you in the formula, I can simply win by selling hope to fools and taking fees from the rest."
And the lack of comment rewards leads to a lack of comments, and eventually people stop posting because it's discouraging to scream into the void. Aka why my blog has been rather dead.
Yeah that's so true and so sad.
I think you should include yourself in discussion. The inflatable whales can't pretend it's not an issue if the entire community keeps repeating the same issues.
Which is what is happening.
I'm sure many old "steemians" still visit too, wondering if those issues are fixed and just maybe the many honeybees get recognized as the true value of this platform/concept.
Oh I did take part in the discussion. I worked with different communities trying to fix it. I talked to people. Without success. Don't have the energy to fight windmills forever.