Hi @happyme and @cryptokannon, I am going to give you my opinion as a new user who did not enter to monetize anything, I did it to be part of a literary community. That community no longer exists, that discouraged me a lot, but I decided to give it a second chance, although some problems. The first one is that there are Spanish communities, there are South Americans ones with whom I can speak in Spanish, but we do not share the same social reality, and many times I would like to talk about what is happening around me. On the other hand, it is difficult to interact when many of the posts are in Chinese or Japanese, of which I only understand the image. The last thing that discouraged me is to feel that there is a kind of "mafia" of steemit. I mean, it is assumed that steemit was born with the intention of promoting quality content, but I constantly see bad posts, paid very well, and good posts ignored . When you pay attention, you see that the author of the bad post gets paid every time he uploads even though its low-quality. So you come to the conclusion that the important thing is not to upload quality content, but to be part of a group of people who will vote for each other no matter what they post. That produces a feeling of injustice, and nobody wants to belong to an unjust community.