First of all, you are not a lousy blogger. This is an excellent post. Here is why Steemit has had problems: content, news reports on many an embarrassing subject from around the world, like my documentation and fight against the DADADS. This resulted in vast government, corporate and organizational powers attempting to destroy steemit. The good news is these hacking/price mamipulation attempts have made the steem blockchain so tough, that steemit is rising! It's popped up and held 30% on coinmarketcap.com. Steem will continue to rise