I always enjoy your insights and I trust your judgement based on you being an investor and a user. The analogy of programmers not understanding people was great. "They'll go out and play on the grass rather than build the house!" Lol
I didn't see you comment on @steemitblog's announcement. Did I miss it? Please voice your concerns there as you do have their respect and attention! What does the @oracle-d team think?
I agree with your thoughts on the SPS. Why take away 10% of the reward pool in order to pay for things that are being built anyway? This building is being done organically and the builders are actually creating business models with outside income sources. This will take away incentive! In my worst English "if it ain't broke don't fix it!"
Let's look now at the reward curve and why I hate the proposal. As a disclaimer I must first write that I have purchased about 25,000 SP at between $1 and $3!
Why I Don't Like It:
1.) If Steemit.com wants another reward model for bloggers they can use SMT's to do it. Don't mess with your unpaid builders!
The Steem blockchain is NOT a blogging blockchain so they shouldn't base everything on that! That is NOT visionary!
2.) Those of us that have built using the current reward system are going to get penalized. I reward all commenters on my posts with an upvote of at least 3% if I can't do that my community has less incentive. What about big investors that are trying to build a communtiy and reward them. Will they still invest? Probably not.
In any case @blockbrothers has the proxy vote for all of my accounts and I'm glad that you are being vocal about your concerns.
On another note why are you using DTube when 3Speak is giving you awesome pay-outs?
Before commenting on the official announcement I'll wait for the testnet. See this thing in action first to form a better idea of what it will look like. Also, most of the time, I stay out of these long discussions because it takes an incredible amount of time and usually leads to nowhere (from experience).
Once it's crushing time and consensus must be reached to make it happen we will know what we are voting for and what it looks like and I'll voice my opinion stronger if needed.
I do like to talk about these things already (like I have always done) on my personal blog and also get a feel of what the consensus is out there from other Steemians.
Thanks for entrusting @blockbrothers with your proxy. We recently updated the list.
I agree that Steem is no longer a bloggers platform, I call it the blockchain of opportunity. I also think SMT's/STEEM ENGINE tokens are the way to reward (blogging) communities.
I use Dtube and 3Speak interchangeably. I like supporting and using many apps on the blockchain, that's the reason.
Patience is a course of wisdom as regards the testnet. Most comments that I've read are negative. I will wait, blog and watch.
Also @kus-knee if you can't upvote your commenters then they will be more susceptible too my flags! lol
Look at poor little @coininstant being trolled like the bitch he is by an automated bot. Jump monkey, jump!! Good boy.