On the bright(er) side the steem price is only approximately where it was when I first signed up a bit over two months ago.

On the darker side this downward trend is rather worrying and will be very offputting to people who have just joined, and those thinking of joining.

I am sure it is very very disheartening for so many new players to see their upvotes register $0, and to be making posts with zero rewards.

I know some of the big players help the minnows in a whole range of ways, but it needs a mega effort from the mega players to really start spraying the votes on the hoards of little minnows just entering the steemit ocean.

I see big dropout rates at the moment. That is a big downer. Each one of those people that leave might tell 10 others "Don't bother with steemit, it was a total waste of time, I never earnt a cent".

I know it is not all about the money, but unfortunately that is the main message in most of the steemit promotion out there.

We all need to adopt a baby minnow or five and help them through the stormy waters ahead.