I am buying votes pretty rarely, and when I do it is only for promotion and visibility, like I did with the last post. When I put a lot of work into an article, I want to share it to people, and even though I am against the money that people make from selling steem off bid bots, at least I paid for that...

I am pretty sad to see that as you mentioned, the activity on Steem decreased a lot, but it is nice to still see familiar faces around.