Great points and post . I read most comments and it portrayed my expectations of how people feel here. majority of steemians are fed up. curation does not work anymore because of whales and their bots. Imagine even if you source funds to buy sbd for upvotes, the bots join and share your curation. If you post in dmania, dmania bot shares from the curation upto 50%. steemit has turned from a lovely community where one works hard to to engage and get followers who reads and probably upvote your good posts from their feed to a platform of bot. Send a crab, upvote with a bot and you done. More worryingly, bots are using bid based crab to rip people off. Folks like Jerry Banfield has even turned to a bot to rip off people legitimately. A friend paid him 10sbd for upvote and got 7+sbd in return total. If asked he said its bad timing cos its bid based bot. Greedy folks posts 10x daily and upvote themselves with no reply on their comments. Minnows joining now does not stay for the community anymore as there is no more love. Most of us who wanted to use steemit as business option to make a living and market steemit to all and sundry are discouraged. Steemit is turning into a mess and if @ned dosnt take action to safe his platform, the greedy whales will mess it up and go for another option. The next hardfork should address most of this issue. We not saying turn here into a socialist platform, no. but let there be limitations to how some individuals rip off. This is my humble take. This post is worthy of my 100% upvote