The first thing I thought when I was reading your post and the timelines, and when I joined in Aug. as a #CryptoNewb and regular person pretty much --- WRT anarchists not liking sports etc...
was that it must mean the platform/community has opened up to a much more diverse audience then.
More regular people. Like me.
I really don't play all the sports games here - I have submitted a couple bets - still wondering if I did it right lol, -- but I played a lot of sports, from the time I was a kid well into my 30's and until the car ran me over last year was at the gym every other day.
I am the everyman that Steemit needs - to succeed, that wide audience of everyone else and regular people -- not just the tech people and crypto people who are a small fraction of the global audience, population and content creators/consumers on things like this.
As our friend @runridefly says -- We Steem On.
Your regular guy -- Barry