I appreciate the compliments. Even if I don't get lots of rewards, I at least have a way to practice writing and being creative while getting something in return which is nice.

One of my chief concerns has been about the smaller and newer users losing motivation as it appears that size matters, and often times it matters too much. It becomes hard to these smaller users to be found since so much organization of the different sites is reliant on payout.

I still have hope for Steemit and am genuinely interested where the whole platform goes, but there are times where I think that perhaps a better thought up distribution scheme and blockchain platform would work much better and simply dominate Steem like Facebook did to Myspace.