What happened to those three authors? They have all been gone for over 6 years, did they stay on steam or just quit posting on blockchain?

Some whales are still encouraging new users with upvotes, I have seen it with others and have experienced myself. But some of our biggest whales seem to be more concerned with keeping HBD stable instead of encouraging top writers or new talent.

I am sure upvoting HBD stabilizer is very important, but perhaps some of that voting power could be used to really encourage the best talent on Hive with the hope of growing Hive user base.