Hi! I saw your comment about wanting to delete your account , so I followed you and checked out your blog. Just wanted to offer a word of encouragement that you stay and a suggestion on how to increase your post earnings if you decide to. Of course, you're not obligated to accept either ;).

Instead of writing posts, spend the next 29 days commenting on other people's quality content and engaging other users in discourse. You'll likely earn more than you are on your posts, but more importantly, you'll get followers so that people are actually seeing your stuff when you do resume blogging.

I found the first month difficult as well, and then I tried a different approach. I have a few good blog posts that I've been working on, and I'm excited to see what the response to them will be now that I have 500+ quality followers here. The results were pretty discouraging when I started out and didn't have an audience.

Also, I have started looking at Steemit as a place to easily store my content (for free) so that I can share it easily to other social media platforms. It's actually really great for that.

As for selling your account, I'm sure it can be done, but I'm not sure how. Good luck, whatever you choose to do :)

Thank you very much for your excellent comment, @mtgmisfit! Under different circumstances I would follow your advice and comment for another 29 days and then resume blogging. That would mean in fact another month without income and then at least another month or many more months without income. Always this little carrot in front of my nose.

I've just found https://steemdown.com/ where the 200 whales are listed and what their income is. The system is well rigged in their favor and in fact I think it's a great idea that all the "yunk" is for them as @stellabelle points out in her account description. Most of those 200 whales don't write, don't comment or do anything. I would guess they are investors which is also fine with me.

What is not right is that we are imprisoned into Steemit whether we participate or not. In the end all the steem of the dead or dormant accounts will probably go directly to the owners, but I'm guessing.

Why can't I cancel my account?
What happens if I die?

My last resort must be now to spam and use hate speech to get banned which will be my next post.

I just want to be free again from steemit and even after studying just about everything with regards to crypo-currencies whether it be Bitcoin or Steem or any other, I know I don't want to be part of it, not now nor in future.

Thank you again for your good comment. If I stay it will be because of you!

This is so funny, albeit, I guess, involuntarily so.

It is also very funny to look at your steemd account and at your wallet.

So so. Please elaborate. Something wrong there?

I'm not writing it all again. Read everything I wrote on the subject and then think. Or think anyway. I might be wrong, but then again, I might be right. I'm off to study the terms and conditions in detail now.

Because of the inherent properties of block chain code, you cannot delete all your activity. Or any of it for that matter.

So it looks like what you want to do is to take your money and just abandon your Steemit account.

Look into transforming your Steem and Steem dollars into Steem.

Then convert that Steem into Bitcoin using an exchange such as Bittrex

Your last step will be to either convert your Bitcoins and send them to your bank account or use these same Bitcoins to purchase something on the Internet.

Thank you for your comment, @goldfishdotpoker. Seems that this is my only option and I will think about it.

None of this post really makes any sense and is totally cynical, but I get where you're coming from.

You don't have near enough followers to expect to get paid for quality content. You did not put in enough time commenting on hot, new posts. You should be in the 400-500 range IMO before you start putting deep effort into original content posts, or you will be frustrated.

Having said that, I wrote two posts that both went over $300 when I had 83 followers. They were heavily researched, highly intelligent and full of deep analysis, pictures, and humor. In other words, they were high quality and took a lot of time.

Nothing about Steemit is a scam and I don't really know what you are ranting about with regards to account deletion. Just filter Steemit from your email and never come back, if that is what you want. Takes 2 seconds, why write a post about it?

" to make newcomers to the platform believe that they can earn real money with writing high quality articles."

I am a newcomer to this platform and have written numerous posts that have scored over $300 in rewards. It's not a scam, just the bar is very high. I often don't feel rewarded enough, but that's how it goes. The writing I do goes for hundreds an hour outside Steemit. However, it is a marathon not a sprint, and the more you work at it the better it gets.

I'm following you and you do write very well as you are very educated. I have also earned well for being less than a month on Steemit. No problem. You may be right, but in your other post you wrote that we should not "believe", but work hard to be in the right place at the right time which requires action. This is correct, of course. But I've been writing on online writing platforms since 2009 and some of them were better and more lucrative than Steemit, but they all went down and many people lost money although they thought/believed it would go on forever.

This is why I want clarity on this "delete" issue. Can my husband inherit my account when I die? Can I transfer/sell my account with Steemit? After all it's a commodity.

BTW: Your voting power right now is down to 16.67% according to https://steemd.com/@lexiconical and I also had a look at your wallet and it just seems to me that you've bought a lot of Steempower which of course would give you higher payout from the beginning. Correct me if I'm wrong.

"I'm following you and you do write very well as you are very educated."

I appreciate the compliments.

"But I've been writing on online writing platforms since 2009 and some of them were better and more lucrative than Steemit, but they all went down and many people lost money although they thought/believed it would go on forever."

I'd love to read some of your stories about these incidents. If you write them into posts, I can get my investor support to vote on them.

Did any of them use cryptocurrency? That's the cool thing about Steemit, you also get to ride along this insane bull market as cryptocurrency gets into the mainstream. You're a capital asset investor if you hold the Steem. I think it's going to go on for awhile, too.

"Can my husband inherit my account when I die?"

Legally, yes. Practically, also yes, but make sure that you have all the login information and master passwords saved for him. He would need all that info.

"Can I transfer/sell my account with Steemit?"

Legally, yes. I don't think this is against the Steemit rules, either? I could be wrong though. Practically speaking, it's probably easier to power down and use the transfer function to move your funds though.

"Your voting power right now is down to 16.67%"

You are correct. I delegated the last of my earnings to the minnow support project this week and lost my vote slider. I like to vote on comments to let people know I read them, and since I can't slider them down anymore, my VP is shot. That's OK though, I have no voting weight to speak of. Thanks for the heads up though.

"I also had a look at your wallet and it just seems to me that you've bought a lot of Steempower which of course would give you higher payout from the beginning."

Your observations are rational and make sense. The reality is longer and more boring, but yes, I bought a lot of Steem with my investor's cash. (I try to get 50-150 a week on my own, too).

It is still taking months to get approved at exchanges, and if you've ever tried using Local Bitcoins you know that sending an investor there would be...hilariously unproductive. Then you've got to get it safely to an exchange that has Steem on it, which really is none of the main fiat ones. It's a minefield almost nobody gets through without getting frustrated and giving up (kept me from investing as much in BTC as I should have back in 2011ish.)

I used the stake for awhile to help get some visibility for my articles, which I think definitely helped get up to 1000 followers. However, the time came for me to send it back, and after considering the options between power-down and delegation, we just delegated it to avoid the 13 week delay. Now she (hopefully) votes on links to stuff I send her and whatever else she likes which, incidentally, tends to be mostly my writing as she hates the browsing interface here and mostly just follows what I link over.

This is one reason I have written several times that we need a more Reddit like interface option here for the social media darlings prevalent in the young ladies of my age group.

Steemit is still like a full-time job if you want to do it right. Being a writer has always been tough, and this is probably close to the easiest it has been.

As always a very good and honest reply, @lexiconical! I hope other people will read it and think about what you wrote. And yes, working as a team is always a good idea and seems to work especially well on Steemit.

I'm sorry to hear that the investor's side of the coin is not working out as it should do (at least that is what I understand from what you wrote), but I do see people out there that make a fortune using cryptocurrencies like others would use the stockmarket. In fact, I just saw today that Forex has arrived here.

You also say that you think that my husband can legally inherit my account and you think that I can legally sell my account like a commodity, but well, maybe we must study the terms and conditions in depth to find out for sure.

I'm not sure if I want to write about Mahalo.com or Redgage.com or Wikinut.com and a few others where I wrote good articles but the latter platforms were shut down before any payout happened. I did earn really good money on Mahalo.com, the system was well thought out and then Google took offense at something Jason Calahani said and overnight Mahalo didn't get hits anymore, lost money from advertisers and the rest is history.

Redgage and Wikinut paid pennies and then I took a break from writing online until I signed up with Steemit and you are right, it's probably the easiest platform ever, so just about everybody can write something, upvote, reply and comment etc., etc. to bump up Alexa ratings. Fair enough, but the quality of the articles is below the belt line.

Maybe I will stay and carry on writing, simply because I have an important message for people out there and I hope they will listen. If not, well, then I've done at least my job.

I wish you all the best in your crypto endeavours and I will read all your posts simply because they are very, very good.

So long, friend!

"I did earn really good money on Mahalo.com, the system was well thought out and then Google took offense at something Jason Calahani said and overnight Mahalo didn't get hits anymore, lost money from advertisers and the rest is history."

This sounds like it could be a very interesting story! Whip it up into 4 paragraphs and post it in the Steemit tag (if your taking suggestions, that is).

"You also say that you think that my husband can legally inherit my account and you think that I can legally sell my account like a commodity, but well, maybe we must study the terms and conditions in depth to find out for sure."

Yeah, I'm pretty sure on that one and I actually do work in the legal field. The IRS has declared cryptocurrency property, no restrictions to gifting property beyond gift tax, and that's at 5 figures+. You're definitely legal, the only question is if Steemit allows it. I've seen offer to buy accounts posted so I don't think anyone has a problem with this. If it were against TOS I think I'd have seen it on those account-buying posts.

"but the quality of the articles is below the belt line."

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