I bought Steem in June, wrote articles starting in May, traded Steem on the exchange during the July run-up, and just bought some more Steem with some of my Steem trading profits after it has traded down about 75% from its ATH. It's a blockchain, you can actually see almost all of this transparently, besides my exchange trading. Steem is a fun and interesting experiment and I'm interested in where it will go.
Calling people a scammer liberally is not a good way to treat people, especially in the cryptocurrency space. It is generally disrespectful and antagonistic.
Good luck.
I like how you are so polite, @eeks. I also like the way you are spreading the etiquettes of Steemit (and human interaction in general).