As long as I've been here they've never really gotten it that for a platform to be successful you need people to engage on it. I can see people downvoting a comment but to flag a post and then have the ability to run over and flag everything someone's done in the last seven days isn't working. It's pure censorship. Plain and simply. Until they remove that ability and the inability to flag a post that isn't violating platform rules Steemit will continue to sink as the years ago by in participation.

Honestly I can't even really tell if the people who use to be here actually left the platform or not as the tendency for most is to run multiple sock accounts so as soon as they want to power down one they have another up and ready to go. It's a self serving system whereas a person could literally just post and respond to themselves all day long, they don't need anybody else's participation. I don't even think we could actually separate the tribe trail curation's into each being individually owned, half a dozen or so tight knit individuals each with a few socks and who needs outsiders to make them successful? It may be great to sustain themselves in the time being but for the long term sustainability of the platform I am not so sure.