I think I am ready to power down and move on.. Good bye #Steemit.

I caught this quote from @dan in another thread:

" The whales are actively seeking out people to promote up the ranks. We have no incentive to be a majority holder of a small puddle. We would much rather be a minority holder of a giant ocean. All that matters is that we grow from a puddle, to a pond, to a lake, to an ocean.

Whales are small in the grand scheme of an ocean of fish. "

The whales have made it quite clear to me that they do not need me here with valuable posts like this :

https://steemit.com/steemit/@worstdevever/what-are-curation-rewards-and-how-should-i-be-voting
Which garnered close to a 100 upvotes but only $10 ..

Or this one, where I spent money building a tool for steem and did not even get enough to cover my hosting fees.. :
https://steemit.com/steemit/@worstdevever/if-you-can-t-beat-them-join-them

... With the amount of upvotes my posts have received I am almost 99% sure they have read them.

I have even been slogging it out and trying to add value where i can such as with posts such as this one : https://steemit.com/steemtips/@worstdevever/editing-your-post-masterclass-with-worstdevever

But still the whales upvote shitty posts and let them walk away with 1000's never to look back on the platform ...

When my first post made money on here I my thoughts where "Finally, something in the crypto community I can add great value too as before I have felt as though I was under skilled enough to program complicated things. My English is my first language and my writing skills are strong. I can type pretty fast and so thought I had finally found my "place".

My aim here was to become a #steemit whale and help curate and build something I could tell my kids about and perhaps I still will. But it most likely will be a story of how I made $3600 introducing myself on a website and not how I created amazing content and took over the world!

So it with a sad farewell I say Goodbye.

You may think.. Wow that was fast.. @worstdevever did not last long and in his last post he was saying how he was so positive and wanted to become a whale.. Well yeah , Crypto moves fast and the more I see whales upvoting trash and skipping over my posts the more it solidifies my thought process of them just not wanting me to be a part of there journey.

I respect that. .

I thought they would be upvoting posts that where original, awesome and helped the community while also making sure to vote for people that are going to stay on board and curate and be a valuable #steemian.

But alas I was wrong. They have mainly been voting for posters that clearly do not know crypto very well and are probably just selling out as soon as they get the cash... IMO they should have carefully chatted before hand and come up with a better game strategy, on-boarding long term valuable members rather than get rich quick #introduceyourself , fund my next holiday #travel and "thanks steem I just had a shopping spree on your account!" posts.

So I will most likely check in every few days as a fly on the wall and perhaps come back as a poster once the middle class grows. ..

Time for me to power down...