Coming to this platform, i was full of enthusiasm. Quality contents are appreciated somehow, but it has all gone to shit.
The only reasonable way of getting a 'good' upvote for your contents is now through the communities like @curie, @steemstem, @steemiteducation and so on. Many have left and mang others discouraged.
If nothing changed, we are in for stagnation (which we are in already ) and then regression. Apart from this, most people are delegating the massive portion of their SP to the bots, which is more or less the same.
It is so sad this is happening to steemit. And to think people are still voting some of these as witness is...depressing to say the least.
Resteeming this.
Projects like this will rise, more of them will come in the future and IMO, they are the ones who will save Steemit and keep people from running away.