Who wrote that post - a month or two ago, I'm not sure - about the real currency here being attention? I've been thinking about that a lot today, and what I hope will happen is that we'll come to realise that what is of highest value here is an honest comment, even if flawed. Of course the whale upvotes are nice, and it must hurt to become collateral damage in the big picture conflict, whatever the [..] it is, but perhaps the community, the real community of humans, will come to realise that human interaction is more important.

For me, that's what going long on Steemit means, not an expectation of STEEM rising up through bubble after bubble, but that a lasting community is established.