it is people's unwillingness to part with upvotes since the last hard fork that is the biggest danger to the platform
THAT. Right there. They dubbed the last HF "Equality" but I think it should have been "Selfishness." Of course, I'm naive as fuck, but I still believe in the whole notion that Steemit could be a working model for a "gift economy" where people reward each other for worthy contributions through upvotes. The whole upvoting of your own comments at 100%... but NOT upvoting anyone else? That just rots...
Truth in Disclosure: I have upvoted a handful of my own comments... but only to lift them above the ocean of "nice posts" so someone might actually read them. A *handful." In several months...