Exactly. Comments are (or were) the best way a newbie could get ahead on Steem, by making thoughtful and engaging comments. In my early days on Steem, I could make upwards of 20-30 comments in a day, and I am not talking about 100-word comments, long-form comments and I was able to get a little Steem from that.
Maybe the voting factor isn't as important because when you join your vote means $0 anyway. But commenting is everything and if we reduce that to the point where someone can't grow their account from it (because let's face it, posting posts without bots gets you no attention when you're starting out) this platform is as good as dead.
We have so many great dApps and developers in this ecosystem, @steemmonsters is one such great example of a well-organised and coordinated Steem application. As it currently stands, the changes serve to prevent Steem Monsters or other apps from growing.
Ultimately, I get the impression these changes will make more sense when we get SMT's, but given they struggled with these changes, my outlook on SMT's being released smoothly is quite negative as I have almost zero faith in Steemit Inc's development team right now.
Implement Agile/Kanban, hire more developers, leverage the smart minds in the Steem community (give them Steem tokens or whatever) and make Steem more of a community project than some private platform masquerading as an open source decentralised application (which it is currently not).
I tell every new user to comment all they can, limiting them to 10 comments a day is a terrible idea
It really is. I’ve commented as many as 20 or 30 times in a day. Why would anyone want to restrict that?
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This idea came from whom exactly? This is the most disturbing, unbelievable and quite frankly I would say pathological idea I’ve seen on here. If someone would tell me that new users ability to comment will be restricted on a social network I’d say they are fucking out of their mind.
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I feel the same way too. I've earned a fair bit from blog posts but most of my earnings came from the 20-30 comments I posted to engage whales and the big wigs, steem is about attention anyways. I rrally hope the new system doesn't hinder this
"...hire more developers, leverage the smart minds in the Steem community (give them Steem tokens or whatever) and make Steem more of a community project ..."
This is a sentiment that is starting to resonate across users who perhaps in the past have had limited contact with each other.
The expertise pool on Steemit must be on-boarded in some way.