The irony is that STEEM is an after thought even for Witnesses.

https://steemit.com/steem/@brianphobos/steem-witness-blogs-on-medium-instead-of-steem

You aren't the first and you won't be the last.

It isn't about the fact that people auto vote you.

We all just see that the Witness voting is primarily a joke and the SPS is exactly what I predicted. It would just be an additional way for Witnesses to self feed themselves more. Most of us that submitted proposals obviously didn't get approved and funds just sit around instead of growing the place and engagement.

I have proposed solutions for advertising.....etc. I have proposed that the power down be taken to 3-7 days just for a security reason to notify users of a powerdown through e-mail....etc.

You aren't a bad guy @lukestokes and yeah the message was a little bit of a troll and I laughed about it. I have accepted that nothing that is posted here is something that can gain any sort of traction on real social media platforms. The curation setup is once again set up for people to just create content mills and just post cookie cutter content consistently and people dog pile on it for curation rewards.

The platform isn't set up to reward any sort of actual engagement or anything. That is how it has always been and it gets worse.

We have money and we know when to invest in crypto when the sky is falling and people are hiding in their closets eating gallons of ice cream and unfortunately STEEM isn't in the conversation when it isn't that hard to fix the issues.

A lot of us get no attention from those in power when we have the ability to actually improve the platform and change it from being an after thought to being something people are excited about.