On this post, yes scroll up to the bottom of your post and next to where it says "16 votes", there is a little arrow to the right of it. Click on that and read where the votes came from. You'll find the seedless one in 3rd place.

Maybe for straight up blogging, WordPress could be a good place to be. Google's Blogspot was another good one if it still exists, I'm not certain, I haven't logged in for years.

Partiko, Steampeak, and the latest, Palnet are all different front ends running on the Steem blockchain. The only thing they don't give you access to is your Steem wallet, which was recently split off from Steemit's blog site. From what I hear, Palnet is the place to be, but I haven't spent much time there since everything is still mirrored in Steemit.

Steem in and of itself is fantastic as a means of exchange. It's fast and reliable. On the other hand, I remember reading about a year ago that at that time it had an inflation rate of about 8%. That means that if you self voted 10 times a day, you barely broke even. If all your Steem came from rewards, why would you care, but if like some you paid for Steem and powered it up, having your rewards and rep flagged down to zero is a different matter, especially when they come after you and flag every post and comment for weeks on end.

That brings me my current situation. With a rep less than 10, one can't post images, nor will the vote do anything to boost the rep of those you vote for. It basically renders the account useless other than written text, greyed out of course if the rep falls below 0.

The seedless one is an account created to function on someone else's delegated steem, mine, and since it's silent, or doesn't post, can never be flagged to zero. I can now use that account to up vote your posts, and also boost your rep, and I can also do this for my own account, ..until I get flagged again. I can then start all over again like that big rock being pushed up that hill of self loathing you described earlier.

Tonght I tried if this works, and it does, so I'll be up voting all my comments from now on until my rep is back above 10. Like you, I didn't come here to compete or make money, but it seems that from me, they'll accept nothing less than pure greed. So be it, I purchased a small fortune in other coins.