I think you have the right approach @digitalfirehose.
Powering up tied to consistent activity will lead to an account growing. It does take time, it is often slow, and feels like little progress is being made. This tends to get discouraging when the price of STEEM is dropping and the rewards were decreased due to the price of SBD moving back towards a dollar.
That all caused people to pull away. It is time for people to realize the ecosystem is shifting if people will get consistent with their activity.
These numbers show it is in a small way.
Thank you. I may be slow, but I'm really patient. :)