Well said @acidyo! The early adopters that hung in there and believed in the platform truly deserve to have the extra rewards now. I am sure that people will not flag others for no reason and I think this flagging will encourage only quality and filter out all of the junk.
By the way, I have written a small post about Steem and how I think it will go up to a $1000. Did you get a chance to check it out? I mentioned some key facts from the white papers on how the inflation rate will be eventually less than 1% a year and I have also mentioned how the steem blockchain currently has the most activity (over 1 million transactions in 24 hours) than any other blockchain. I am sure it is nothing new to you but for all the newbies it might be useful :)
lol checked it out just now before I saw this comment. :D
You're awesome man! Love ya :)
I read your post, too.
I think it would be important to develop the front end. It works now but Facebook's is completely superior in every way. They've had massive amounts of money to throw at it for a long time, though.
Marketing and reward distribution are other things that deserve a serious look. With a more equitable reward distribution, it could be easier to get more people on board and keep more of the people who join.
Also, developing easy to use basic financial services on top of the blockchain is another important area. Smart contracts? I know of only three people in my city (Lahti, Southern Finland, 118,000 inhabitants) who have ever had a Steem account. At least a third of the population has Facebook accounts. As a way to pay for coffee, forget about Bitcoin and nearly any other cryptocurrency. But STEEM could work perfectly. After a critical threshold of user density in a local area, STEEM could well function as a payment system in stores or between individuals. Would it make practical sense for a large group of users in some densely populated locality to create community like this? If if worked, it could attract media attention.
Yea, those are some good ideas. Steem does have a lot of work to do to. We need to do funding projects so that we can support developers in improving the platform.