I'm shadow-banned from Steemit :(

About a month ago, I must have pissed off somebody around here with power. Maybe I questioned the slow pace of the site updates? Or my civil disobedience of unjust laws got me in trouble? I'm known for being opinionated and not afraid to say what I think is right. Or maybe they caught on that I'm using more than one account?

Who knows, but I went from gaining about 30 new followers per week down to none. I still post 1-2 times daily, a variety of topics, categories, and styles.

It appears a staff member has modified my settings so that my posts no longer appear under the "new" tab, which is how most growth on Steemit occurs. I'm only able to gain new followers if I find them manually (if they see a comment of mine, or if somebody they follow resteems my post). So in the past month, instead of nearly 100 new follows, I've picked up 4 this way. Essentially, I'm invisible to all but myself and my friends.

My post payouts are suffering badly. My regulars (there are about 7 or 8 of you) still see and upvote my posts, but even that is dwindling. My reputation is completely stuck at 49.2 forever. I really don't like to complain, but what would you do?

What the problem ISN'T:

• overall slowdown of the Steem community
• my posts have gone down in quality
• the price of Steem has dropped recently
• a very long line of unfortunate coincidences
• me being impatient or greedy
• I've already found all potential followers

I can make posts under other accounts, each time gaining dozens of new followers, so I know something is up.

As you know, if you aren't growing here, you're shrinking. Those who aren't moving forward aren't going to make it into the moneymaking club. Hell, even some that ARE moving forward won't get there. So stalling me for an entire month has already taken a massive toll on my future earning potential here! I've worked full time here for going on a year, I've invested everything I've got into this site. Steemit, all I'm asking is to be treated fairly and allowed to continue creating content for your users, so I have a shot at being compensated for all my hard work sometime in the future.

Please unban me!

Since this won't be seen anywhere on the site except my followers feeds, please consider resteeming this. (Thank you.) Or, if you know any of the owners/moderators here, please ask them to look into this and fix it ASAP!

DRutter

PS: I've made posts about this previously, here and here.

PPS: So this post isn't a wall of text, here's a piece of art called "Blood Moon" I created. I started with a photograph I took a few nights ago and then used various techniques to modify it. I like how it turned out :)