I don't equate being on steemit with high school.  Especially not the high school you went to.  It sounds like it was brutal.  However, I sorta dealt with
high school like I currently deal with steemit. 

I just mind my own business.  When I feel like saying something that I think has value, I say it.  I don't go looking for fights nor do I respond to inflammatory dialogue.  Praise those that deserve and need it.  

Now I wish I could say I have done that all my life.  I haven't.  But steemit is my kind of place, I guess.  I get value out of it, reading and commenting on things that interest me.  I don't have to interact if I don't want to and I can spend as much or as little time here as I desire.

I guess what I am saying is, I like steemit.  I didn't have preconceived ideas of what it should have been.  Could it be better?  Sure.  I have mentioned a few times that I don't like the flagging system, for one.  If things get to where I don't like my experience anymore, I will move on.