Hey there! You raise SO many great points and I'm happy to see you haven't given up on Steemit. It's quite frankly refeshing to see your mindset on this. So many people aren't actually trying to understand any of it and that's why so much of it has gone awry.

I think I may know EXACTLY what you mean about that Facebook group. I too was in a bunch of steemit groups at one time. Before I knew it most of the groups were certainly not running well at all and I saw a lot of the shenanigans you speak of unfolding left and right. So now I'm only in two groups and I bet you know which two I mean.

Yes you successfully had me smiling. Thx for weighing in. Let me hit you up