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RE: STEEM: Freemium Is Not Free!!!!

in #busy6 years ago (edited)

Taskmaster, I always appreciate how you are bringing so much positivity to the steem blockchain! thanks for that!

I do disagree with you in reality however, around the pay to play or more honestly invest to play scenario. Many people will not be willing to do this until they have a positive experience. Many people come to Steem through just stumbling across it on the internet and they will enter in on a trial basis- it's a users market at this point- I don't think Steem is reliable enough (as a place to earn through sharing) at this point to engage users through inviting them to power up a bit at the beginning. The threshold of experimenting here always has to be free, otherwise I see the community not being inviting for most people. Yes facebook sells your data (i no longer use it), but people are blind to that (or don't care?!). In an ideal world what you are saying is true, but I don't think people will care about the fact that none of this is free (previous "hidden" cost of interaction.)

The users under 50 SP need to be given some basic daily thresholds of being able to comment up to 30, vote 40-50 and power up money. Otherwise you're telling someone to engage to earn to power up to invest, but you're not giving them much bandwidth to do so. It's counter intuitive. If I was told I had to invest before I could ever get off the ground here, Steem would've lost me early on. I do like the incentive to power up to get MORE actions available on the blockchain, but absolute new users under 50 SP need more RC activities available to them.