Hey Nathan - I have immense respect for you and all that you are doing for Steem. I'm very sad to hear about your current feelings towards Steem, the community and the (not?) succeeding of #Seven77.

I really hope you can, as Asher already laid out in his comment above, see your 'numbers' in perspective. If only 5000 accounts post a day, of which maybe half are alt accounts or spammers, so 2500 real accounts are posting, and you get 650 of those to participate in #Seven77 you have done an INCREDIBLE job!

Seriously. That's not failing, that's succeeding.

Now I can't decide for you what you want to do with your time and how you want to spend it and when you feel like you were successful. I just really feel you were REALLY successful.

I know you don't expect me to explain myself for why I don't participate on #Seven77 daily, but I want you to know there are many reasons why I believe a person chooses to not participate, some are about the possibility of getting/not getting a job, having online stalkers that you don't want to get extra clues about where you live, feeling depressed and not being able to participate daily, or just even the simple reason that 'only one minute' sounds like nothing, but it's still a minute on top of things a person already chooses to do with their day. There's only so many 'only a minute' things you can do in a day.

That's not about you, not the passion of the Steem community, that's just numbers and complexities of life.

Summary: In my view #Seven77 is a huge success, and the fact that the numbers are stagnating can have many many reasons that will never be fully understood.

Much love,
Rosanne