When steem launched, its value was 0. It's not even close to an all time low. It is infinitely higher than it was a year ago. And you don't get to just assert without evidence that the reason it's low compared to July is because of "Whales." What does that even mean? Where are the studies and data that led you to that conclusion? Maybe its low because people have trouble with key and wallet complexities. Maybe it's low because of dissatisfaction with the UI. Maybe it's low because every third post is someone whining - yet again - about the steem drama of the month.
As to bots, when you're done with that crusade, maybe you can go convince Google to replace their supercomputers with an army of humans to populate their search rankings. Only humans can rank pages for search indexing, right? And maybe we can get Neflix to shut off the AI and use humans to create their movie recommendations.
I have just checked - you really do not know a thing do you - who whined? When you make a comment in a discussion like this, do not do it out of ignorance. Have you heard one whale making any comment about what matters, other than their balance? No, because of course they are culpable. A magnificent idea with a dodgy system of leverage, usurped by myopic, greedy people. How many subscriptions, how many accounts. Go read all about it in the digital forums - you will soon see.
The truth gets shot down whilst the gunners position is on a retreating sandcastle and the tide is coming in ... I have done the mathematics and it does not look good. Sycophancy will ensure a Myspace conclusion. I am just man enough to tell it like it is ... go on shoot all you want!! You will find blanks in your magazine.
It would be good to try and keep the debate about ideas and concepts, and not make it personal. I've found that most people here are pushing for what they view as best for the platform. At the end of the day there are right and wrong views, but people arguing bad ideas are not necessarily bad people.
I agree ... to put a smile on your face ... 'he started it, sir!'
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ... get educated ... who can be blamed for this absolute mess other than the people with the power - I bet you are one of the greedy ones who intravotes incessantly to try to hold on ... grow up!