Haha ... for once we are in agreement ... over mimes at least. But the block chain is doing just fine and growing. If you stopped staring at whale blow holes for just one second, you would get that.
We have fun, we have humor and we have merriment. And no mimes in sight. Really Paul. My experience here is very rewarding and my account is growing and I have plenty of larger accounts upvoting and commenting.
The bidbots are a necessary evil and having ours out in the public for anyone who wants to waste some SP but maybe gain a few followers is a damn sight better than what goes on on other social media platforms. I don't go to the trending page and rarely even see bid-botted posts. My feed is my own and I get to see the people I follow in it. The feed space on other platforms has become staked territory and I see maybe a handful of my friends and mainly boosted and sneaky boosted posts.
It is a pay to be seen world and social media platforms are full of boosted posts and botted likes. We get the flack because we don't hide it with off-site bots.
Steemit is not the worse. It is world's better. It is the BEST. We gotta start singing our praises and not taking ownership of universal problems with the internet. It's NOT good business. But if you are going to continue. MIME it instead.
My own poetic offering on the evils of the world