@ned I'm really looking forward seeing this in action, I had the feeling we needed something less capital and more human in order to recognize the non investor user base voices.
This sounds like a great way of doing it.
Whether it gets market value or not, I'm sure that a trending driven by it would be a nice incentive for recognition of the really good authors we have around.
I am glad to see someone with an actual saying and power to drive change showing understanding that each type of user has a different problem set and need to address them all in to solutions that are in the best interest of the platform.
I have like this classification of user types:
The minnow blogger telling us about his kids
The blogger that has the potential to become an influencer
The guys trying to do curation with small investment / coalitions of small stakes
The small investor exploring the possibilities of the platform
The persons or groups working in to creating and developing solutions and new models / opportunities for the platform
The investors believing in the platform
The investors looking to maximize ROI
Each has a mindset, different needs and a different approach, but i would say them all are required for the growth and escalability we need the STEEM blockchain to achieve, and their role is important in the ecosystem.
I do agree STEEM needs to serve all these interested parties.
"The minnow blogger telling us about his kids
The blogger that has the potential to become an influencer"
Currently the platform serves mostly this type of persons (wisdom of THIS crowd), attracted to an alternative to some other social media platform. A centralized platform alternative.. ?
They love their iphones and have no idea how they work inside, don't know how to set the video cam on their phone to HD either.
Seems to me the UI has to rule the day... to really have a "GPT" work correctly, because nobody will understand what's under the hood, and they really don't want to..
(Jeez the term GPT in itself makes me cringe, ouch...)
Most people today still ask me "what's an SMT?"..