I thought so too, but turns out the curators have decided this post (and eventually my rep score) needs to be reduced to zero. They hit it after 4 or 5 days, so fewer people notice what they're up to. This is happening to hundreds of users at a time now, and you'll be in the crosshairs if you get any bigger here, Chris. It's forcing a lot of people to start using their account on Blurt, a copy of Hive that doesn't have downvoting or rep scores (hence, no possibility of bullying or censorship). The only drawback is you have to pay for everything, even leaving comments. This stops spam and abuse (which is what downvotes are officially supposed to be used for on Hive). You already have an account and money there - about 400 B, currently $12. That's plenty to pay all your fees for months. Another upside is that payouts are much bigger, and you keep a greater portion of them. I only moved over a portion of my HIVE, and I'm already tossing out big votes, and growing by leaps and bounds. People are friendly there and you actually get thoughtful comments. I'd love to continue here, but the more I post/comment, the more targets the whales have to reduce my rep score. When it gets to a certain level, my account will be designated a certain way, put on blacklists, afixed with a warning, and everything I say will be grayed out and hidden. That includes my past content, which includes a lot of important activism and knowledge, so I'm not going to let that happen. I've become very popular with a few whales - they now read EVERYTHING I say, scouring it for anything they find offensive. But they're already easily preventing me from ever making another cent here, so there's really nothing else they can do. They're choking off their own platform and killing the goose that laid the golden egg. They have already knocked my wife down quite a ways and she has had to move all her content to Blurt. I am limited to a certain amount of remaining posts and comments here. I'm using one to reach out to you, because you're my friend and you're another real content-creator. People reached out to me a few times over the past year and I didn't listen, hoping they were exaggerating, or that it just wouldn't happen to me. But as soon as I became profitable (5 years in!), and started to attract bigger curators and regular income, I was deemed a threat. They say it's because @MediKatie and I upvote each other's posts, but that's a hollow excuse. We are dedicated content-creators here. They're the ones abusing the payout system, and keeping anyone else from joining their club. It simply can't happen on Blurt because there's no "reputation" (censorship tool) and no downvote (financial bullying tool). The atmosphere there is incredible, and it's basically what Steem/Hive set out to be, but will never achieve. I won't predict where the token price will go, but it's now at 3 cents, and every day more people leave Hive, or just come to Blurt from mainstream social media/blogs looking for a change. As BTC and the whole crypto market have steadily fallen for weeks, Blurt has been edging upward, thanks to a steady stream of money leaving Hive. People are powering down, logging into steem-engine.com, hitting "Deposit" and selecting Hive. Then they're buying BLURT, hitting "Withdraw", selecting Blurt, and then powering up in their Wallet. But you wouldn't even need to do that, you could simply log in with your posting key and make a post. I dare you to see what happens if you log in and post "Considering expanding my content to Blurt". No text, just a photo of one of your recent art projects, and tag it in Blurt. In less than a minute you'll understand what I'm trying to explain and why so many people have realized it's better on Blurt. And no this is not an infomercial or copypasta. I hope to see you there, where I'm not limited in the number of replies I can make. Say hi to the pup for me! : ))