People are leaving this platform because they don't find success in their 1000-word essays that can't be seen by the curating communities. But they have missed one important detail that every low-value account must know - engagement. Sure, you're a good author but if no one knows about you it's pointless. Since most that reach the hot are those who can bleed out to boost their posts, or those whales who can self-vote their memes.
But with engagement, people will check your content out. And probably most minnows would earn more on commenting than on their own content. Based on my own experience, except 1 post that got curated, I haven't had one past the $1 value without boosting it. But I randomly get $0.1-$5 on my comments for free. And of course, the discord community-engagement also increases your popularity and follow count. This is why it's called proof-of-brain algorithm. We gotta use our brains on how to find success; either bleed out cash or become popular.

Anyway, I haven't seen these numbers until now, and I've checked out your last post. I was surprised that the ones who got a $0.10 vote are part of the 1 percenters already. I intend to lease more SP to make some newcomers happy and stay. Some think it's unprofitable; it is, if you're thinking short term.
Yes, I'm one of the guys who came from Jerry and friends' band, but I never expected that I'd earn a ton here, atleast for now. I haven't engaged to new users, thanks for the eyeopener, I'll check #introduceyourself posts from now on.