If they just join up, do their thing and rake it in, that would be a shame.
All of the curation will be manual and judged case by case and the more that join the less rewards they will be making in total as we only have that much voting power to go around. So yes, the focus will be to never mention rewards when bringing them in but the other great features of Steem such as the community, immutability and upcoming stuff like communities and tokens and help them onboard their fans and following if they like here as well. The more traffic the better it is for Steem and Inc possibly dumping less if they are making more adrevenue.
The reason I think this is the best time for this is because there is more and more stake being opened up to curation after HF21, I don't want users to feel as if they are going to be missing out on rewards while we prioritize these newcomers that may not have done as much for Steem as they have so that is definitely not the goal here - we just want the platform to grow with deserving authors and regular users who use it like they would use any other platform.
Thanks for the reply. I wanted to make sure you know that I have respected you on here for quite some time. I hope you know I am not dismissing your replies. I am absorbing them, unpacking them, and dwelling upon them. I think you have made some good counterpoints to my worries. Thanks!
I appreciate a couple of things.
1: I appreciate that you actually give a damn and are willing to talk about it.
2: I appreciate that OCD is willing to step up to bring on new users. I don't know how many times I've heard 'We're going to onboard the masses' that didn't happen. OCD is not only saying it, they are doing it. Huge difference.
I don't know that new users can help to break the stagnation pattern we are currently in but it certainly can't hurt!
Just think how tickled we'd be with the current price had we come aboard at 20 cents instead of 2 dollars :)
Thanks, you're taking it better than most. :P
But yeah, it won't be about giving them a bigger edge and rewards just because of a follower/subsciber number they may have on the other socials as most of those are fake anyway in this day and age. With manual curation we will judge the content creators not just on the content but also the way they use Steem.