Yeah - Steem is dying. It started dying as soon as everything about social interaction was monetized, and it became all about every little thing - every vote, every comment, every mouse-click, every bit of self-promotion - being all about money. The guys who sold this as a "new idea" were basically lying - and ended up "corporately raping" the rest of us by using our personal information - KIND OF LIKE GOOGLE & FACEBOOK HAD BEEN DOING TO US ALL ALONG - except they weren't lying about it, and they weren't trying to get each person to clone their same mercenary behaviors.