In my experience on SPortstalk, the ones who comment and apologise are usually lone operators, just trying it on a bit. The big circles don't get into a discussion or retaliate. They know they have more combined RC and power than you and that you will eventually have to stop downvoting them.

I never liked steemhunt, well the idea is cool but the submitters and curators made it off-putting

Absolutely agree, their problem is there is only an infinite amount of new stuff to bring to our attention and now its just a list of Apps. they have zero credibility and as you say , no one is going to want their nice new product lumped into a feed where the best tech they can muster is an airline app or tin opener.

For someone like me who isn't a content creator, tribes are where it's at. Started powering upRealityhubs and will concentrate on them and Sportstalk as opposed to the scattergun approach I've had previously. On top of that, the Steem snobbery really gets my goat lol ;-)