There is a 3 to 1 ratio of visitors to posts.. which makes this pool incestuos. Look at the stats below.. 3501 users in the 24h period 1194 of whom were authors. You don't see stats like that anywhere - you are out of your element on this one.
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That would be due to the incentive to participate by posting not just reading. No other platform offers you the potential to win money for your content.
In other words, all the would be readers (who are still readers) are also contributing content.
I've read that youtubers make $7 CPM on their content on average.. I am in advetising and I think that is a pretty accurate number. Consider a youtuber might get 50k views.. Thats $400 USD. Now while I agree there is little downside in them putting their video up here.. The 3,000 active members a day would be a pittance in comparison to Youtube. If we rewarded them AGAIN - it wouldn't be fair - Steemit would be buying a blog page with a Youtube link. I do like the idea of short links to youtube content (like they do on reddit) - but only if they change the reward structure around (as they have spoken about - a "short content" reward). I've introduced people to this platform - theyve made money on their first few posts - but they think its stupid and leave (honestly). With short content I think there would be a much stronger value proposition for regular non content producing users. I think the people who stay have friends or projects going on - for those that leave other than SteemSports or some of the other games - there is not much to keep the average guys attention (in my experience).
50K views does not equal $400 dollars per video, that I know. Not on YouTube. It's closer to maybe $50 and that's only if you've already been made a partner and enabled advertising.
You can ask @allasyummyfood who spoke at steemfest about how hard it is to make money from YouTube. 3'000 active members is far less than 50'000 views, and yet one or two votes from high stake steemians (whales) would pay as much as the 50'000 people who watched her video on YouTube.
I disagree that it isn't fair to reward them for bringing their content here after they've been rewarded elsewhere. I think that chances are, after they get rewarded enough here, and realise the value of steemit, they will actually promote steemit to their own followers which deserves rewards and should be encouraged with rewards!
I presume they are not the people I'm talking about in this post then. - People who are already looking for ways to monetise their online brand or content.
Thats it - drink the kool-aid.
I'm tempted to flag you for trolling.
I've provided you with salient points - I am not being abusive toward you - I thought we were discussing in a free forum. Jeez - sorry if I pissed you off..