Honestly, the social media aspect of this whole thing seems to be the driving factor of the 'community'. Like for example, you posted the results and get like 60-70 votes in a couple of hours and 95% of those people don't even come in and listen or interact with the majority of musicians. Let alone vote or support us or play our music or subscribe to our channels. The ones who do get votes seem to be people doing other events or got onto steem early enough to get the whales constantly upvoting them, while they in turn upvote/resteem only each other. Then one time I made a mistake and posted twice by accident and got shit on by a ton of bots and now I cant get more than 2-3 votes if I get any at all from 4600 followers when I post music outside of this contest. I have had like 4 subs on youtube and soundcloud that I can attribute to steem for nearly a year put into this. Don't get me started on Dsound...lol...I still haven't heard my music play on that site and most of the lower rep people that have stuff on there that I try and play doesn't load, but everybody who is generating large amounts of steem sure seem to be working just fine and that includes people putting up copyrighted music that they not so cleverly disguise as by labeling it 'mixing'. There is also 2 other judges, one hasn't posted anything in 10 months and the other just doesn't interact at all with anything to do with this event. I mean...are they not interested much? We just have you occasionally relaying a comment they may have made. I'm just feeling like the the vast majority of people involved within the music community is more concerned about SBD than anything else and could care less about the musicians. You have been nice to me and always very positive and very interactive and I appreciate it. This also isn't specifically about this contest, I'm mostly referring to stuff I have seen all across this social platform. Like the timing algorithms and requirements used to manipulate how and when people are rewarded or get voted is a huge downer for musicians. I don't feel it should be required to have these essay long posts with pictures and links and shout outs and whatever other kind of voodoo rules they have for me to just post a song. I don't have time to sit on social media all day long to conform to some long hand English quiz on every single reply a certain amount of times a week just to be rewarded with a bot vote or out of fear of being rendered invisible...I can do that on twitter and youtube already and spend hundreds of hours less time doing it. Anyways man good luck with all of this. You, vandal and djlethal have been really cool, I'll still be around just not so vocal. For anyone else reading this, don't assume it was an attack on anyone specific or the other musicians or the SML events, it isn't. Peace