Whether people are giving up on their writing, or we're cutting down spam and plagiarism is unclear. Perhaps its both.
Speaking for myself, last week was pretty busy in meatland and there was no time to write.
I got back to it today, but at least so far, the reception has been nothing spectacular (also vaguely mind boggling that the first post is worth 25x more .. it is funny (or so I like to think) and all that, but todays' post is much more valuable)
Too soon to give up though ..