They have driven the Authors away, now all we get fiction wise is pretty much only the 5 minute free writes. I used to be able to read full stories, bit by bit, but still full stories the authors would share, I suppose there might be some still writing, but not many at all.
I loved reading and commenting on stories and even offering suggestions when asked. Those days are gone, they died a semi silent death in late 2018 early 2019. I don't visit face book or you tube very often because there is always that chance of enjoying something, then it being banned removed or blocked. Most other Social Media sites are that way. Steem and now Hive has also adopted that, lets make it hard for people to find things, lets grey the people out so people think they are bad actors.
I hope after the final separation Hard Fork from Steem that the first two things they fix are the Witness selection, and the down vote system. If a person wants to down vote a post for excessive rewards then that down vote should go against the excessive rewarder not against the post creator. That the person that cast the down vote would have an auto comment made, and then the community can decide. Yes people say that will only start flag wars, fine!!! All wars eventually end. People will learn they can not just go about down voting willy-nilly that others are watching and will take action.
It is time for the content creators and the content consumers to start pushing for a fair down vote system that does have an effect on plagiarism, and abuse.
I agree on all counts, and find your solution here to be very clever
"If a person wants to down vote a post for excessive rewards then that down vote should go against the excessive rewarder not against the post creator. "