I am elated to have two participants this week.

Nice proof. :D :D
Of the lack of the real human communication on the Steem blockchain. :)
By the way, I checked the statistics, and nowadays the average number of comments per post is only 1-2. It was around 3 a few months ago, so it is went even lower.
By the way (again), are you really "elated" from 2 participants? What would you do, if there would be hundreds of them? I know that there will be no hundreds of participants (at least not nowadays on the Steem blockchain), so this is a theoretical question.