I saw another #OldSteem beneficiary [complaining](https://steemit.com/dblog/@slowwalker/to-downvoters-and-my-ex-followers-i-d-like-to-continue-my-blog) he is getting downvoted now. He has made serious money from it and still could through curation, but he says he will power down. A lot of his supporters have also seen their fortunes turn around. I do not want to see good people driven away from Steem. I only downvote where I think rewards are not fairly earned and it will only take a few cents off.

We need a new wave of users who are interested in creating something great rather than just earning. The bigger rewards will come later. Those who feel they deserve a bigger slice now harm the platform. Seriously, if you have several hundred thousand Steem then stop self-voting and give those votes to some of the small accounts who make cents. Those who carry on like this will not get my votes anyway. I do not care if I make less from curation because of it. This is partly why I keep my votes mainly manual.

You get ready, use this one, too, eh?

Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.

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A bunch of people left because of the price dropping, now I am bringing them back. Yes, for someone to just be starting off an upvote is largely symbolic. 

So be it. 

People came on here with content that they have never had monetized before and acted like people owed them anything after they got used to it. There is a lot of value here on the platform and ive been enjoying working on growing my community again. 

As much as I would like to see it, I don't think penny Steem is going to happen - even with the large account dumpers. I am here regardless, posting for Steem, not pennies and one day I hope the difference will matter :)

This makes sad but also gives me hope. My steem journey has been interesting. The time I could've gotten somewhere by engaging the community I was busy following Jerry Banfield and his likes waiting on a get rich quickly steem rain get to me. It never did. 

Then I  started getting into people's comment sections and somehow earned a few. I treasure who come... because I have now gathered 800 plus steempower which to me is a milestone. I am camping here whichever way :)

As far as a social media outlet, I like Steem Block Chain. Everyday I can find things to read view and look at, I can share thoughts ideas, pictures and stories if I feel like it. HF 21/22 did do one thing though that has me concerned about the viability of Steem Block Chain becoming a different Social Media Outlet, and that is the growing and ever increasing number of 15 SP down vote troll accounts. 

I know they do very little financial damage to people, but the fact is the down vote system is broken, and the troll have been being kicked off of steem at every corner except this one. @steem I am sure is aware of the issue, after all I bring it up a lot. People have a tendency to pretend that the delegated stake is the accounts stake, that is wrong. The Stake belongs to @steem and it is @steem that is enabling the down vote accounts. 

Steem Block Chain wanted to be a **"Different"** social media, by allowing the continuation of these down vote only accounts all @steem is doing is making the steem block chain social media a part and parcel of the same old same old social media mindset.

I'm here since January 2017 and I saw ups and downs in time, but I'm here now like I was here before. I think this is not the end, but just a different "re-start". I'm old enough to know that everything need to change a bit in time to work better. I like to wrote my contents , to read contents from others and sure, even if the value of the steem is down, it's always more than I can earn on other social media, right? Thanks my earnings I can buy stuff for my work or to pay a part of my bills, that's not bad. ^_^

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Isn't it steemit that's the blogging site and steem the utillity token?

Steem is much more than steemit. If steemit died tomorrow is that the end of steem and all its on chain projects? I don't know.
But if steem is just steemit then i need to find a new token to invest in