People will do what they want with their Steem. Personally, I only dislike the cheaters and leeches. The artists and other creative content producers are same as the people blogging about their day. It's not harmful. In my opinion as long as people are showing Improvement or engaging. That is what I feel steem is.

To be honest the people who irked me the most were those sharing on Steem, they hit a button and never answer comments or thank upvoters. They log in once a month to remove steem and power down once a year or so. They have a rep in the 70s, would score less than 300 in your league and are ghosts.

I am just sad it took me about a year to figure Steem out. However when I joined the price was too high to buy a lot.
Some  businesses will make a killing. Let's have an open discussion on how to keep a significant piece of the pie for those interested in engagement or a way to get a great smt. At the very least since steem did start as microblogging, I think we should keep this aspect.
 Im going to sell all my Steem the day we talk about it on another platform more often than on steem itself, but I don't see that day coming anytime soon.

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What else can I say? Just post and comment on steem.

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I think a lot of the decline is there seem to be several classes of people on steem, just as there is in any community. The bankers, those that hold the vote bots and want a return on the steem. The bloggers those that think they have a lot of real important shit to share with people just like the mainstream media. The artist, who want and want for making a pile of crap and calling it art and believe it should be liked and upvoted by every tom dick and harry, and lets not leave sally out of the mix. Then the my way of life is the right way of life vegans,macro eaters air breathers, and all the rest of the eaters are eating the wrong shit. Then their are those that are the happy joggers and do not understand how people like me can sit back in their lazy-boy recline and not upvote that amazing I walked 100 miles on my actifit post. Lets not leave out the people standing on the corner waving and twirling their silly little cardboard banners saying come shop at my place and get a fat discount while we screw you with inflated prices. Oh and lets not forget the other corner people -  the world is doomed be alarmed, believe in my science guy, your science guy is wrong.......the different types of people with so few real active accounts makes one wonder sometimes...is steem blockchain a microcosm of any real village, town, city, megalopolis, or does it just reside in the mind of the insane like myself.

I stopped looking at that gif account some time back. It’s an exemplary example of an esteemed Steemian! There is too much nonsense on this place Asher and sadly, having principles and values don’t carry you far. That doesn’t mean we don’t respect you and others for trying.  

I would have cut my losses and given up on the Steem platform if not for Steem Monsters. Blogging, posting memes, photos—not really my thing. I did try!

I have noticed the decline as well. i thought everyone who is here was thinking long term and about the community. Looks like there is only a core of us who think along these lines. Your league prevents us from doing bad habits, but for how long. We just need to keep growing and support everyone we can.

Content creation is only dead for those that keep expecting something else to happen. 

Perhaps I should start emailing some p2w browser games letting them know for only 5k Steem I’ll drop a banner ad in my posts and do a review. They keep blowing $30k per video on YouTube on channels that have nothing to do with gaming!!! The only thing more awkward is those YouTube channels trying explain the game and "how fun" it is.

Yeah where is the love?

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I read this as a poem.. and still better than trafs... and his alts... 

Blogging is not dying, it’s just price is down and all you goobers auto vote anyways.. who needs quality? Many manual curators are still here though and I still don’t upvote this shit posts 🙂 well, except this one. 

It will come back around, hold tight 😉

Yeah it sucks ass man. Because of the lack of big support growth is based on the price being big enough for a post to be worth anything and right now it's in the shitter!

The thing is, I think the death of blogging will be the death of the platform. It's ok blah blah blah'ing about apps and shit but most of them are scammy or poorly coded pieces of shit!

Keep on grinding ;0)

Feeling kind of ignorant as if I am missing an inside joke... I just keep going forward, no looking back!

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Pretty deep, man.

As the Stones already sang some 30 years ago: You're not the only one with 'Mixed Emotions'.

Felt the same way for over a year. Most dolphins and whales just sell their votes these days... hardly no big dogs are voting anymore for peeps 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

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