Oh Mr. Stok, there was much need in this post. They (newsteem) don't get it. They only value their circle and if your not in thay circle, well you dont have any value to add. I've (we've) been here for a long time, we have seen the good,,,,the bad,,,, and the newsteem. Not sure we will be around to see the next step. Funny thing is, I am not impressed with their 1 mil plus steem powered accounts, I mean at $.14 cents it wouldn't be hard to get to 1,000,000 it would how ever be a bad and very risky investment. Its a last ditch effort for them to recoup some of their losses, but it wont work, the have blinders on and by the time they are done steemit will be under 100 active members. Shit brother I could go on and on. This has been going on for sometime though, one of the newsteem is the old grumpycat, and well, we now he didn't last long. Hang in there bud... when the dust settles SSG will still be here kicking ass and stacking silver.