Thanks, V-C. I thought I had alluded well enough to the idea that reputation scores SHOULD mean something, and that if the whales are/were serious about wanting to make positive changes that they could/should take whatever actions (including disincetives for bid bot buying of reputation scores) in order to make that come to pass. I guess not.

That is a subset of the argument I've been supporting pretty much from the time I arrived...i.e. That the influence of bots in general, needed to be totally reigned in.

Thanks for your succinct (as always) comments.

It wasn't purely the drop in steem price that hurt me, I don't think. It was actually, I think, more about the unexpectedly low (and dropping) activity of the site in general, I think, that hurt more.