Great post. I also read all the comments and your replies. Steemit had/has a lot of potential, but it will die if someone doesn't fix the flagging wars from bots and the excessive power you can get if you have a lot of money to buy a massive amount of SP. Those fools in the flagging wars don't follow anyone, set up bot farms as a service to upvote and then flag anyone who who is posting and making good money from upvotes. No mention or discussion of value or quality of posts. Just downvote to control the rewards pool so its available for them.

I've also seen that @ned doesn't post much, but will vote for his own comments that provide him with massive payouts. He's gaming the system he helped create for his own benefit. Reminds me of our government...