Your poll is slightly biased, how about for those who've rewards increased?  I would vote for that option.

This HF has been great for bringing STEEM into the direction it was meant to be.  Engaging, Curating, sharing and genuinely helping others before helping ourselves.  It will come full circle, help others and they will help you. Nothing happens over night, STEEM is a long game and those that do well are content with being here for the long haul. 

Remember, the rewards won't just come to you, you have to work for them by rewarding others and spreading positive energy through curating, engaging and networking. 

Instead of creating so many postings - many of which give a short blurb with a link outside of the platform - those kind of posts don't get a lot of support and not many people care to link outside of STEEM when you should just have kept you content within the platform if you wanted people to read it.

Instead of linking to your full blog on the outside to read the full post, just cross-post the full entry to STEEM and have the post on both platforms. Just put a sentence at the end "Cross-posted here and on xyz.blog" to avoid accusations of plagiarism, and if you want your blog to be 'the original' and get the search engine optimization, look up 'canonical links how to' on Google and set that up with your blog post on your external site.  If you're not worried about that then whatever - but that's the only reason I could see why you want to link off-site and keep the full post on your blog instead, but canonical links will solve that. Not to mention cross-posting will give your content reach and can do wonders.

Community is huge here, and you'll start growing the more communities you network with and the more time you put into your posts here. No one is going to care to support you if you don't seem to care enough about how you present yourself on this platform.

You've been here longer than me but still seem to be struggling.. I'm not talking out of my ass here, if you want to succeed there is a very clear path to take but you seem hesitant or defiant about taking it..
 
Just as in life the universe will give you what it thinks you want.  If you harbour on negative energy, it will keep bringing you negativity because mother universe thinks that is what you want.

This post is another example of that, leaving out increased rewards as an option basically shows you've blocked out any thoughts and energy that are positive.