I concur 100%! Steemit can be soul crushing.

You're led to believe that if you post good content, you will be rewarded. So when you do and hardly anyone respond to your Blog, you wonder why are you wasting your time, if no one sees or ignores you just because you're a minnow.

There's lack of integrity on this site, I believe. New Steemians leave in droves because they're led to believe this is totally different than posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: here you get paid for your efforts and it turns out to be false. It doesn't meet up with the claims on the package.

Then you're told that if want to be successful and have your Blog grow, you have to buy all sorts of things like bots, SP, upvotes. This isn't authentic...this is pure desperation.

Where are the Whales and Dolphins as this massacre is taking place? Why are they not reaching out to the little guys? Their pond will become become murky eventually if they don't welcome new fish and give them a taste of the bait.

So yes, I've been desperate and sent 0.700 SBD to hugewhale and received absolutely nothing in return. Another soul crushing moment! But I didn't give up. I sent another 0.700 SBD to some other service that promised the sky and received .55 and perhaps 5 upvotes. What a laugh...how was that worth 0.700SBD? Perhaps it is... I'm still doing the calculations but just look at the figures! Any idiot can see that this don't add up!

Anyhow, I'm not one to surrender!

I still like the potential of this platform and determined to grow with it.

Now if only Whales and Dolphins pull their finger out....

PEACE...OUT