A refreshing and calm perspective, for the change :)

I assume very strongly that everyone who invests money here has this money left to lose. In such a highly speculative environment, anything else would be stupid or desperate. Depending on where the money that flows into this crypto form comes from, you can consider it angry or happily earned. Unfortunately, people have a rather unhappy and tense relationship to money.

I would only recommend people to invest in Steemit or to start here as bloggers if they have strong nerves, a smooth and quickly regenerating mind and a lot of humour. For everyone else, this platform is more like a psychological flytrap, a hornet's nest, where the fear of the pool being raped and the dream of great wealth being over goes around. The big ones infect the small accounts with this fear or FOMO. I include myself.

As a blogger I would like to have my peace from the noise before and after each hardfork and the space invaders who dominate the trends with economic and technical topics. If the goal is to have a trend world dominated by quantities, I can understand when artists, poets, fiction writers, philosophers, etc., seek the distance to avoid unintentionally serving the cool or hot player mentalities that promote and bet on "user behavior".

In the wiki explanation of game theory that I understand, Steemit is a non-cooperative environment:

If the players can conclude binding contracts, this is called cooperative game theory. If, on the other hand, all behaviours (including possible cooperation between players) are self-enforcing, i.e. they result from the self-interest of the players without binding contracts being concluded, this is referred to as non-cooperative game theory.

In this respect, I would say, it testifies to collective intelligence to say goodbye. My impression of Steemit is that content needs to be there only for content in order to offer a kind of carnal substance without which investment makes little sense.

Would you have invested if there wasn't a blogosphere that exists as an expression of something lively? What would you have invested in then? Would there even be a Steemit?

I am actually not interested in making money here as I do not depend on it. I'd say from the cool gamers perspective I'd be the best candidate in terms of a naive user who does not care for the cake. Over time I felt the burden to always use the upvote-button and would prefer to just talk to other people not thinking about rewarding them. So I just switched to giving always 100 percent, no matter what. From my logic, an article which I read from beginning to end deserves my full treat even though I highly disliked the content. I realized that I begin to detest that and that was the moment for me to reconsider, as I am not wanting to be a punisher for opinions or "bad quality".

Even worse, now this whole downvote issue came around the corner. So, after two years of experience I feel exhausted and am ready to retreat.