I completely agree about the marketing thing @joshman. We need a dedicated marketing agency with reps that understand both crypto and mainstream digital marketing. A marketing firm that could maybe bridge the gap.
Imagine a person spending literally years milking a platform of rewards on STEEM, only to leverage those rewards into a 'thought leader' on a contentious fork of it. Could you call that money laundering? When someone gets a bright idea, it might help to try and speculate what their actual intent is based upon their previous behavior.
Also, this made me laugh. And the meme that went along with it. I've come across people saying things like 'live and let live' in regards to these good folks who literally ground steem's value proposition into the dirt and drove away easily half the community of high quality content creators. There is nothing like spending many many hours, even days, editing a short story - to put it up on steem and then see the same horseshit spam content all over trending from stacked bidbot votes - to make someone run a mile. Live and let live my arse. It was fckn criminal what went on with vote selling.
I just hope that enough people remember to not allow that sht to happen again, if we get a chance to see the same level of growth that steem had in 2017.
Don't let these folks with the big wallets talk you into killing inflation on HIVE. Many of these big wallets got big by exploiting the STEEM system in ways that would now be unacceptable on HIVE. The ONLY WAY to level the playing field so that their influence deteriorates over time is continued inflation. Do you want to be ruled by oligarchs?
Also, this is spot on. I've read some insane things over the last few months about negating the reward pool etc. Why not just line up all the content creators against a wall and let all the passive large stake take turns taking a run up to kick them square in the balls (or other non gender specific genitalia 😂). It would be simpler and quicker with the same amount of pain. And it would destroy the only thing that hive has going for it above and beyond a host of shity POS projects.
Ha ha, anyway rant over... it felt good to vent 🤣