I gather from what you say, that the last straw so to speak was this harassment that let's say "visited" your friends even though it seems you only hinted at it with "crap rolls downhill", so I gather.

I had made about 660 steem last year in my first 6-8 months, by and large from comments. I cashed out (in wallet page under your SP you initiate a powerdown, turning the amount you chose into liquid steem, it takes 13 weeks, each week you will get a 13th of the total powered down) around the end of July '17 and probably made a good $1000 after trading some in August and then again at the end of December, taking pretty much full advantage of the markets. Needless to say, after I started the power down I left the scene untill December or so. When I started here a year before that in Dec of '16 Steem was not even a year old and it was very promising and even at 6 cents at the time engagement seemed of higher quality than a year later when I had come back. I'm not a blogger, I'm a curator and consumer, and every once in a while I might make a post or two about my experience as such. Engagement has never been as great as it was in the first half of 2017. During that time we had the whale experiment, when our voting power literally increased by a magnitude, as the whales were neutralized by @abit and @smooth and others who were flagging them since, after @dan left (the creator/dev of steem), the much anticipated HF 17 (later dubbed hf 17.5 and finally hf 18) didn't addess the main issue that the community was vehemently proposing was absent from the changes (n^2 voting power curve making an account with 10sp 100 times more powerful than an account with 1sp). That experiment lasted weeks and then months and ultimately I think was responsible for the surge in price in May of that year. Like I was saying the engagement had never been the same, people started losing hope despite the price because of malicious flagging and that only worsened with bots. I'm telling you all because it might give you a new perspective on the community before you joined. It would not take much effort to link your work on here, use up your VP on curating content (maybe even delegate it to fighting abuse) and collect the rewards or simply power down but still continue to cross post your work for the benefit of the audience you have here. Leaving because you've become disenchanted with the development or because of the behavior of one person harassing your friends or a combination of those issues is understandable yet if I were you (content creator) I'd be hard press to not cross post to the platform, even if that means including a disclaimer about those issues, as when it comes to alternatives to publish and monetize your work as a content creator, this place still has a lot of potential and still continues to hold it's first mover advantage for what it is. Yeah, steem wasn't created with "youtube" alternative in mind, but even if dtube is being buggy I'd consider cross posting here as you have build yourself an audience and I doubt anyone will consider it disloyal or otherwise not cool to do so. Just my two cents.

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