I am actually a bit surprised to see how few active Steemians there are out there at the moment, I feel this contest has really highlighted that aspect for me.
When most people dedicated to the contest has 4 or 5 votes over the course of the week, it means there are only around 2-3000 people really participating! 😦
I hope we win and I have a feeling that we will; but for me, this entire contest has been a bittersweet kick in the face in regards to the size of our active community...
You are absolutely right. This contest in Netcoins is a testimony that we are not a strong community in terms of size, when all the frontrunner and leading whales including Ned and blocktrades make a call and even offer good upvote size to the people, voting should have had like 30k+ at least. But we have only 11k so far. I wish we win at the end after scrutiny by Netcoins. Vergcoin voting are fake as far as today's votes are concerned.
In terms of community power, we have a long way to go and I think we have to rethink about it once again where do we stand.
I completely agreed. I am not sure if this is telling us what the real elephant in the room is - perhaps, steemit is not as active as a community as I would thought it to be. The numbers don’t make sense. I hope the fundamentals are still there.