Excellent post, Tim, thank you. I've been trying to increase conversations lately about investors and how they ultimately drive the financial value here for everything we see. If we just focus on bloggers (who often want to extract rewards) and don't also talk about the investors who want to see a good financial return (or they'll take their investments elsewhere), then we could end up killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
We could have a great social media platform with excellent content, but a token few care about because the investment value is pushed down but bloggers cashing out on a regular basis.
At the same time, we could have a nice speculative cryptocurrency increasing in value and a site full of useless spam and self-voting bots on junk, just to extract the highest investment return possible.
Neither scenario is very pretty. Posts like this will hopefully get more people thinking about the long-term value of creating valuable content and promoting actions which bring great financial returns to investors.
Thank you.