Welcome and well...I don't know if you got the stomach to hang in here. I'm a very harsh critic sometimes but I can say that I always found respect so far even if many don't agree with me or my take on how the whole system works. I still post and want Steemit to succeed, but I have a lot of doubts and will never invest in it unless I see some changes or clarifications in their business plan.

Anyway there's also lots of great people (including whales believe it or not!) and VERY interesting content and posts, a lot of them go unnoticed for reasons explained in this post. But it's basically what you said, this is a microcosm and there's a lot of both bad and good people.