Overtime you kind of see people's voting patterns and everyone approaches things slightly differently so it is interesting to say the least. If anything the STEEM blockchain is a grand experiment of behaviors in a decentralized governance model.

Overtime a lot of our followings have increased but in a lot of ways I don't feel like I'm any further ahead than I was when I had 300 followers on here. And when I look at it you would think by having almost 4000 followers that I would get a lot of automatic upvotes but I basically only get about 15 autovotes not including my own bot trail.

Then you have to ask yourself if my content is garbage? Obviously everyone isn't going to be interested in all of it but in my opinion some of the stuff I blog about isn't really blogged about by anyone else on here. Some of my crypto videos have been real rock solid especially my one on EOS. People generally liked my best memes. So I really can't say for sure why so many people don't set up Steem Voter when it is free to upvote people automatically.

Like I will see people sitting with STEEM power in their accounts not voting for anyone......etc when they could at least earn a little bit of curation rewards. I don't know if it is because they don't know about it or if they just don't want to do it or they think it will take money away from them. I'm not really sure.

It is just hard for me to believe that after all this time that only 15 of my followers figured out how to use the autovoter. I have seen other people come back and it was like almost all their autovotes were gone. @daxon was a good example of that. He was gone for awhile and when he came back he didn't hardly have any automatic support. He was still on my autovoter.

My autovotes are pop'n off non-stop. 120 people on autovotes.

I have monitored my voting and the rate that everyone is posting and basically if I just post myself a couple of times / day and just upvote people's posts my voting power recovers slowly. I upvote a ton of comments and a lot of them I upvote with a decent percentage which I like to do but that is what really drains my power.

To be honest I don't want to really rant about the situation on here but I almost feel like we have to accept it for what it is. Even if you are pumping hard on here it might always feel like you are on a hamster wheel and always having to say "Remember ME!!!" "Remember ME!!!" to people. I think that is the biggest part I don't get. There are some of the OGs on here that I'm still upvoting but I rarely get upvotes from them. Of course they have their own little clusters here on Steemit but it is weird how you can fall out of mind pretty quick.

Ultimate Realization

Some things have to play out overtime for me to really determine what would happen with this platform and how different people could approach it. The distribution was messed up from day 1 and that will likely always be an issue on here. That being said I don't think the platform will "die." Even with no real updates it is light years ahead of anything else. It could just keep going for 3 years or more with no real updates because people will still post and stack coins and the witnesses will keep going. Even if this whole place becomes 500 people circle jerking each other there will still be money to be made if a person is in the right position with a decent amount of power.

Also another thing I want to mention is that the math on buying more STEEM power and what that will equate to never seems to make sense. Suddenly it makes sense when the price goes way up. If a person is able to just keep rolling gains into it it suddenly makes sense when the price spikes. That is the way most people are always going to feel unless they ended up with a massive amount of power back in 2016.

Everyone is in a different situation on here but I would say if a person is a content creator that has made a decent amount of money on YouTube it would make sense to just power up a bunch of STEEM to hedge their risk with YouTube. Obviously for a person to do that they have to gain a certain level of conviction on this platform. Always my question with it is if I shouldn't have diversified as much and just powered up more into this platform. Some of it has served me well though because situations like the Calisto situation since I had a little bit of Ethereum Classic already I will be getting that and I was in before the surge so we will see with that. Also with different forks for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin.....etc I'm able to gain those extra coins by having positions in other projects. So it is hard to say for sure. I'm not sure whey I'm typing all this. Probably 2 people will read it.

Ultimately I'm bullish on STEEM and will keep gaining more power