It is clear that i made a mistake assuming that running a community here would lead to more support and delegation. Maybe people view me and indeed other community leaders in the wrong way, that is to say people who are really looking out for themselves and just trying to get power and make money. I think that is a misconception and very untrue for many if not most community leaders here.
True, you should have thought about empowering the community account with more power - without which a community is not rewarding. OCD probably had this in mind from the beginning, they have got huge power so they can incentivize the curators as well as good post. And I see that most successful people( in terms of earning more rewards for themselves) on hive are curators of these large accounts - so they earn rewards on their posts and they earn a decent amount for curation - like a full time job. Without all these, curation is a thankless job and I think, it will be fine to pull the train to a halt - I know how much emotion you have but I think, this place does not care about anyone's emotion - it's all power play.
thanks for your comment.. yes, funnily enough when i started ecoTrain that is exactly what we did. I had four or five VIPs as we called them, including me, who bought quite some Steem ( i had around $5,000 USD worth) and between us all we had a fair bit.. and we used that to reward our passengers.. of course back then the upvotes from us all were only worth one or two dollars so it was never really enough to do much at all.. then as the Steem price dumped it became even less!
lets see how it goes.. ive reached out to a few people now to see if we can get a bit of curation help.. that at least would take the pressure off me.. and allow things to continue.