I understand you are a witness. Witnesses keep the steem blockchain running because they run a server. I understand that this costs money. I heard it’s around $500 a month. This is why we should all support witnesses with our votes.
Jerry you have the right attitude. You write for the love of the community. As you point out, so many are here for the money, and end up leaving because valuable followers are hard to catch. It takes a great deal of time and effort to build a list of genuine followers, especially of those who have the SP to give you a top vote.
A quite difficult thing to do is building a genuine follower base, most of the time, it's difficult to attract the right type OG followers because we don't control them. Amazing comment here