Participating when your vote drops to less than 0.1c really sucks. Suddenly you can't make comments pay out, and often, your posts don't even pay out because they can't reach 2 cents. It becomes completely pathetic and hopeless. Maybe it has been a while since you tried starting out here from zero, it has become essentially impossible. You can't make money, you can't grow, you can't get seen, and you can only comment infrequently. It's a nightmare for independent users trying to start out.