Here's something to think about. New people sign up every day. Every single day, we have more accounts than we did the day before. And yes, some of them are miner accounts or farmed accounts, but some of them are also real people. Yet almost every day, we have fewer and fewer active users and fewer posters and fewer commentators, in spite of more and more people knowing about us. 3 months ago, we had just under 3k daily posts.. Today just over 1100. These two opposing trends are enough to tell you for sure that the problem is not just that everyone is hungry for us but no one has heard of us.
I actually did lose interest in steemit for like 3 months or so, and wasn't on at all. In many ways, that was a function of those three months being a relatively busy time of year for me at work, but general dissatisfaction with the platform also played a role in it. I guess it comes down to I make time for the things that I think are important and have a lot of potential, and this wasn't one of the things i made time for. And before you chalk it up to bitterness, keep in mind that my last post was far and away my most successful (though money really never played into my motivation, the amount of payout i could get from a post here isnt particularly signifiant to me).
My role in my firm is mainly focused on dealing with new contracts, and we don't accept new contracts from thanksgiving week until new years, so ive kind of been back for the holidays out of an abundance of spare time. I don't know if i will make time to stay back once i get busy again. I have 2 different really good ideas for projects with steem, one of which I'm actually really excited about, but the rule change issue makes me a little wary
I actually think im a pretty good example of how steem isnt appealing to content creators. I was strongly considering publishing something I had previously written on steem. It was something that i take a great deal of pride in, and information that you can't really get anywhere that ive seen. I even had strong indication that there would be significant whale interest in it. One of the things that decided me in the direction of not doing so was the very low quality of content on the same subject that was already here and had high visibility. I simply wasn't willing to put something i wrote side by side with something written by "the poker tip guy". Im sure serious authors about women's issues might have felt the same way about posting side by side with whateverhername was(the really bad womens writer that stellebelle thought was a bot.)