Congrats, Rich!
I don't know about the platform being essentially an honest place, though my opinion is probably tainted from the 3000+ downvotes I've received over the past year, and Steemit's seeming unwillingness to do anything to reign in serial, ideological downvoting by people who do NOTHING here but downvote.
After my experience on Weku, ideological downvoting is almost a welcome relief- at least it's an honest disagreement done in a bad way. I managed to accrue the highest rep on Weku and 500K wekucoins (worth maybe $150) for a years worth of work. That place turned into a clusterfuck of dishonesty!!!
A person who never posts though...and just downvotes... is NOT involved in any kind of "honest disagreement."
Sorry Weku didn't work out, brother.
I had a feeling...