Would it not have made more sense to have an 8-10 week period leading up to the hardfork where the daily payout pool was lowered to 80%
Changing the rules of the game like that requires hard forking; that's what a hardfork is.
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So you just admitted that it could have been done that way, but you chose to do it in this way instead?
I totally understand. Why do it in a way that would have been a smooth transition with minimal effect on the community, when you can do it in a way that loses a lot of people large amounts of cash that they were expecting, and create an extended period of very low payouts.
Twice you have sent me an unhelpful message- and a condescending one at that. Do not do it again.
Reduced rewards for a week or two is already a minimal effect on the community. Nobody's going to abandon steemit (that wasn't already) because rewards dip for a week. The rewards aren't enough to keep people here even when fully powered. The community we have here is why people return, not the twelve bucks they get for their blogging. :)
Hardforks have a non-negligible overhead, and there is pretty significant value in not making them too frequently.
Maybe we'll empty the rewards pool average every fork just so that people don't get too many expectations. :D
Geek to geek that's an excellent comment.
@Steemit CTO communicating to @son-of-satire is not one on one, as in a chat. The whole community which is also reading your interaction.
With code, logic, cold, hard is all that matters.
When dealing with people, humans, words matter, @sneak
People will leave @Steemit if they believe that they are not valued.
Stupid people create the value, inspite of intelligent code.
We have a team of great people for that on our blog. I have no other option than to write in my own voice for comments. I can only promise to do my best.
I like to give people real talk in the comments section. As we grow, the exact reason you specified means that doing so probably won't be advisable very much longer into the future, and I'll have to stop. Until then, I'm going to give it to our exceptionally intelligent group of early adopters straight, with the full knowledge that it will taper off as we go more mainstream, because people might get the wrong idea.
Until then, I'm going to revel in our small community and opportunity for some temporary frankness. :)
Ah!, @sneak real talk v users.
You choose what helps build @Steemit other than code.
There is also EQ: emotional intelligence, sir.