It was disheartening to read Paulag post that over 500k never made a post or upvoted anything. then we have only about 60k active users for the past month.

No more disturving is the fact that I am a 1 percenter.

I know these people you talk about that say they are community based but continue to cash out their money, they get upvotes from whales, from sndbox and even curie community votes but everything is going out. Some of these folks I have more SP when they were a good 2-3 months before me.
I started slow. I only started taking things more seriously on my 3rd month and I have regularly powered up so that I can reach my goal of 1k SP, I rent delegations and I really want to reach being a dolphin before my 1st year or at least 2 years because the more people sharing the reward pool the harder it will be.

I wish more people would see it long term but the fact is too many want to just withdraw and withdraw not thinking that they should be investing as well as strengthening their account.