Great comment man but I got to point out that your own reflection on the experience here spells out what reality is here.

That almost all Life has escaped this place. Which is why rewards on comments long ended.

On my own experience I reflect when I joined too. I read some posts by @suesa that triggered a thoughtful response from me. Then not long after I got a $10 upvote from @blocktrades that made me think, "shit this thing might just be the real deal"

Anyway that was back before blockhead turned completely evil and decided to only leech money through the services that '@ned the fat toad' granted him a monopoly on. Because when that blocktrades service launched, even suesa stopped getting shit all from him and it essentially saw her get pissed and eventually leave the platform!

So to me that's the failure of this place in a nutshell. It was really organic with the rewards early on.. then sharks said,

"fuck that, my winnings don't need you in the formula, I can simply win by selling hope to fools and taking fees from the rest."