If I may quote you?

From what I can see, virtually all Steemit users are there to sell their own work to other Steemit users. There are, essentially, no customers.

Sounds like a mental Soylent Green.

Actually we do not differ too much in our opinions, though I do use steemit for other things, not just my stories. Why do I say we think along similar lines?

I joined here, for the opposite reason from you. I do not expect my story to ever be published, so I wanted it to be on the chainblock, in the vague hope that some future generation come across it and read.

However, what I am trying to do is set my posts of my book to "Payment Declined", but I cannot set it to be so on a permanent basis and sometimes I forget.

I have read a number of the parts of your book and I intend finishing it - and I want you to know that I have enjoyed reading it and think you are a good writer (better than me).

If I do not find you here anymore, I wish you all the best and I hope you keep writing.

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Just in case someone reads this post and my comment and they care and can try to improve the settings:

1. Just because I follow or someone follows me, if I have unfollowed, why am I forced to keep their name/link in the lists? It just makes i very difficult to use the list.

2. Those I follow; some I want to check on now and then, but there are a few I want to keep watch on for posts on a daily basis (for instance, this poster, #mishaburnett). The way Feed works now, I just see hundreds of accounts I do not care to see and as I do not have hours to go scrolling, I ignore the use of it.

Think it through please and try to make it useful for us.