I very sorry to read you plan to leave, or are leaving (past the plan already I suppose). While recently it is getting harder and harder to get rewards on our posts, you can also see this as a phase. Since I started at Steemit January this year, I've seen many rough times for myself. Low Steem, no attention, no followers, suddenly a peak in attention and then rock bottom attention due to the new balance on our platform. Indeed, may followers but hardly any voters amongst them. And I have my ups and downs, and I started to adopt to not attend to Steemit for a couple of days or even week when I get to my down. But I still think, persistence it the name of the game, and although also I do not get a lot of rewards, well it is level of a tip would say, I still try to continue since I still think it'll become better at one point in time, maybe when we get community features (whenever that is). Anyway, I hope you will reconsider, or after some time of from Steemit, we will see you back here; in one or two weeks perhaps? :)
I'm not leaving because I can't make enough money. I can if I just decide to play the game the same way as most. I am leaving because I am starting to run out of money, and if I do not leave, I will end up acting in a way I do not want to in order to make more of it. Plus there are a number of other things I did not touch on, but in essence, I know that if I stay here I will become a shitter person.
I have reconsidered many times already, and I don't plan to again until the situation is vastly different.
Thanks for the words though. And I hope that you get what you want from this platform. I already got what I needed.
Without you going into the other topics, I can imagine at least some of them what they are. I try to not watch it, sometimes even fight it which I do recently. But continue with the stuff I like to publish. I actually think this social experience will show that something with good intentions by those who did not create the network at day one (they have a different agenda, I'm pretty sure) will become a bot network with some humans left who only take care of themselves. So nice experiment, but with a failed mark at some point in time. I wish you all the best with your new projects.
I'm getting to learn some very interesting people with which I can do business outside Steemit, my main purpose of being here with Steemit. I get sucked in a bit more than I wanted, but whatever I do here, is also to test things, like my second account that I dedicate to sharing quality music. I love to do that, although it doesnt bring rewards. But who knows, maybe in a couple of months time, it is more appreciated. I give it some time, 5 to 6 months. When it didn't work, I learned from it at least.