Now I know you didn't leave because of the money.

When I first signed up for Steemit, it was like a post-nuclear war world. There were tons of pointless posts that were only voted on by bots. For a long time, I had a hard time finding a place where I could interact with real people. Then I found the WOX community and got my first comments. Dozens of people voted for my posts, but they couldn't get more than a few cents. At that time, there were almost no people who had enough SP for their vote to be worth even 1 cent. Something had to be done about this, because Steemit was becoming more and more like a bot farm.

Then the Steemit team took the initiative, so to speak, went out to the people, and they started supporting dozens of good authors.

That's when the first rules and restrictions appeared. It was a forced step, aimed at growing dozens of accounts so that they could support other authors in the future. It worked, and now Steemit is much more interesting than it was then.

Having partially achieved their goal, the Steemit team has started to repeal the new rules. Look, no one is forcing anyone to be in the club5050 anymore. No one is obligated to burn their rewards anymore. There is not much time left and the platform will become as you described.

However, if you completely abandon the rules, Steemit will very quickly turn into a garbage dump of plagiarism and AI-generated texts.

No one and nothing will force you to do or not do anything here. So if you want to write another post, there will always be at least one reader waiting for you. 🙂