So I also undeleted this particular individual. Once my sp became active again I tried upvoting content that I liked and then upvoting my subsequent comments and conversations basically achieving a 50/50 split between myself and the author which subsequently netted ~ 25% pay back to me. These returns were minimal when compared to the amount of sp that I was previously getting per day through delegation. I then decided that I would work on authoring some blogs hoping to achieve greater earning by doing that. The problem that I ran into is that I don't have anything to blog about that someone would want to follow on a daily and/or regular basis. I actually thought people would find this posting rather interesting/informative but after receiving only 3 upvotes and 1 penny from other steemians I was somewhat disheartened. This was also compounded by the fact that as during this time period, as I explored the steemit website, looked at various blogs and how the ones that made significants amounts of money (say in the 100 - 300 dollar range on average), I realized that you were either posting really valuable content or you had "friends" who would upvote you with significant amounts of money even if all you did was post a pretty picture and write a short paragraph. This was also somewhat disheartening. So for the next few days I have decided to be my own "friend" or "whale" (although I am not much of a whale) and just upvote my own blogs as well as upvote folks who comment on my blogs just to see how that payout compares to the prior delegated payouts that I was initially receiving. At the moment I still have several days to go before I see an initial payout of my own blogging for comparison purposes. After that I will post some follow up comments regarding my finding and thoughts about things.