Not really less but i put the minimum possible in it really, it still serves as bulk, something twitter and facebook understands but here all the people in the masses are expected to pay with the money of the middle classes and the very many are supposed to behave, talk and walk like the very few.

I see a lot of insulting stuff , coming from a small group of very plain people, and as you say, the wanna-whales have jumped on the wagon of 'measuring' how much content warrants bid-botting.

No one seems to notice bidbots did not give roi before this hard fok ... about 99% of them did NOT .. so anyone using was putting more money in than they got out ... by all definition to me that's burning ... if not STEEM then yourself ... and now everyone is measuring how much a post is allowed to pay for itself with real money from real pockets and if the content is bid minus 5 then it gets downvoted. I see a lot of pack-rats jumping on the wagon but i have not yet seen any who could give me the formula of content or the measurement of it, how much and what kind of is allowed $5 ? how much and what is allowed $10 ..

i made this here account since, and this one doesn't even post, it just comments lol, i mean 60 steem used to be close to a months money, now even guttertrash can pay (yet strangely no one comes as you say)

I doubt my mother and my old man , my uncles and my aunts or even my nieces and my cousins (and one of them works in IT at the E.U.) will come running when i tell them
"Cuz SMT's !" ... i think they will look at me funny if i did that ...

since i didnt put much bid in bots anyway other than the few who actually truly returned something over what i spent the difference for me is mostly 5 cents instead of 10 lol so it doesnt really matter that part, but what does is the price and the price is fucked ...

I wouldnt say i'm a busy person, but i remembered this week there's more to the planet than STEEMIT as i found a lot of newsletters from other sites gathering dust

site where is ALSO don't get paid to speak but no one tells me how to do it ;-)

gaming, yea, steemmonsters came in hard and put their money where their mouth is and gaming-on-a-blockchain has potential but ONLY if you can GET something , otherwise, i have about 400 games on STEAM (with the -a-) where i ALSO get nothing for playing them :)

Not much at all so ... other than the price two cents down and sbd not even pegged at a dollar and steadily de-clining. The big ones take to "curation" but from what i see here on this 60SP it would take about 2.5 to 5 years to 60SP just from voting so i dont know how that works investment-wise for millionnaires ... entrepreneurs are needed but the featured and trending is still mostly marketing ... where posting affiliate links was frowned on or downvoted until a year ago now its featured by the company itself ... and you don't buy votes from tipu , tipu now curates you itself ... which is normal ... after all i find myself adding posts to my list simply because they will get more curation, not necessarily because i think they're the shit ... so small people get less and the ones who already had it get more, steemmonsters has the right filosophy but no one picks it up and those who maybe would maybe simply don't have the clout or opportunity to boot ...

and so it goes on, and so i never get to the reply section of my own section because im always out of RC because i talk too much commenting ... tsk

take care !!

would be lol all the way if it wasnt for the real money involved ... Steemit Inc seems to fail at the one thing they need most : pick up the filosophy from steemmonsters and outsource that IT-genius or get side-projects going on and take on jobs-for-money from third parties ... but well, that would be reasonable and logical and require actual work outside the comfort zone, which is afaik something that's only to be expected from the trash in down-below

i take the wind out of their sails or they go

and almost literally at war with the always positive smile-crowd as i just got some soviet-belgium (real life that's actually not steemit) reprimande on how i was 'negative' about things they (in their holy ways of truth is us) said .. while from my point of view i was just speaking my mind instead of yay-saying (or what i here would call 'vote-sucking')

if 'the company' could do just that they could basically run this DAPP (often confused for the chain by the many) as a pet-project, if they were GOOD at marketing themselves for odd-jobs they could literally buy up the price and watch them-selves how it immediately gets dumped for a change :p

and so and thus i think this puts me nearly out of RC again so the rest of the steemworld will have to wait, tschuess ..