Sorry to say, but smaller players are no longer welcome on Steemit anymore. The whales that became big because they were in first, used bidbots themselves, vote themselves in circle jerks with other whales are now demanding others to be 100% clean as to not delude their build up Steem value. They say they "will look into the circle jerks later" while being part of it right now. They claim that "you are not owed any Steem", while they still pull in a lot of Steem out of the rewards and share votes with other big accounts. As a result the platform is dying. We got a shrinking number of users every day. And exchanges are starting to delist Steem. Today Poloniex send out a mail that they will no longer have Steem trading on their exchange. More will follow. I find it completely bonkers some live in a bubble and don't see what is going on.