In the early days, people tried to build their accounts to grow. So they eventually could earn more. Nowadays, all you need is some Steem or SBD to buy votes.
It can't last that way and they will get crushed in various ways as prices fluctuate. The buyin will be high and the returns sketchy. SP will still be gold.
There is a lot of risk here but, what is the ceiling?
Like some others have been saying. Steem is likely to see prices of $50+ in the future, so now is definitely the time to stack up on Steem. Some have said that prices of $100+ is more accurate. And some people believe we will see these figures in the end of 2018 or the beginning of 2019 already.
It's a bargain deal right now to buy Steem. And if you don't want to buy, you should save the Steem you earn.
I know all of that and it's a pain to power down, but it's something I have to do. Hopefully, we will be able to build the asapers even larger with time, especially as it grows for each day already, so hopefully, I'll be able to earn back the SP I've been cashing out until the prices rise.
That being said, newcomers doesn't see the real potential and value of Steem. They see Steem and SBD, they think dollars and they cashout everything they can because it's awesome to buy a new cellphone per month.
And that's one of the things the asapers is trying to fix. We are trying to get people to see the real potential and the true value. People who would've left Steemit stays because of us. And we're just a tiny curation group with a few cents worth of upvotes. With time, we'll be able to do even greater things...
And hopefully, we'll see more initiatives and changes to help newcomers to get their acts together at that point. Because I truly believe that newcomers are the ones we need to support. Not only by large upvotes, but with education.
We did that in the past... We can do it today as well.
It is going to help to train the newcomers and, it is going to help for the mid range community builders to build because if there aren't enough large commuinity operators in that high price future, the small accounts are essentially non-earners as the circlejerks will continue. So from now, I ma going to focus a little ore on building the middle and doing what I can low.
Btw, it isn't much but I gave 200 dele to @asapers just before.
Building the middle sounds like a very good thing to do. We're definitely in need of a middle-class on Steemit. You build the middle and I go for the newcomers with the asapers. ;)
Thank you very much for your delegation, we appreciate it! :)