While I have not been as active as most of you on Steemit in either this or my previous accounts that got locked @michaelqtodd and @mqtodd I have been doing a huge amount of watching and even traded quite a lot in the currency about 10 months ago.
I joined Empire Avenue (now called Empire Kred) nearly 6 years ago. I have probably been the heaviest user of the site.
I have also been a heavy and extremely successful user of places such as TSU, Empeopled, Google+, Scoopit, Triberr all of which have user visit graphs even worse than EK and Steemit.
Steemit has 120,000 accounts and Empire Kred has over 100,000 as well. They were both revolutionary and disruptive and both had massive early success. They have both attracted some extremely talented and passionate content creators. They are both I believe "rescuable" but it will require MLM. Plus starting again in regards to the slope of the playing field.
Empire Kred and Steemit both heavily reward the early joiners and while this is OK financially it is not sustainable when it interrupts the dynamics of the community on an every day interaction level. This is why our forthcoming "influence" score will start again every month and why nearly all your Crowdify points will disappear every month if you have not used them.
I believe that you have to give an even chance to someone who just entered the community a month ago to someone who has been there 3 years. Otherwise they will become easily frustrated and continually running off to join the next "big shiny thing". Nobody likes to feel small.
It looks like Steemit only has a couple of thousand active users. Some of them are making a lot of money, but many will be lucky to make a cent. If the whales want Steemit to continue then they need to spread their votes around and help out new users. We know that the technology works, but need to overcome suspicions. If we can get a few big bloggers and vloggers to post here then it could take off
Crowdify Club offers a lot more than just blogging to earn which is a massive move in the right direction. Having a place to find folk to assist in technical issues, finding tools to build a site and have insight into how it works goes a long way.
Personally I find the MLM everywhere alongside blockchain technology, no matter where you go it is apparent and a way of building together for reward.
Growth and work go hand in hand, thanks for your insight and sharing @crowdifywepayyou