Will this platform be able to continue to attract people when it becomes abundantly clear that only a small percentage will actually make any real money?
What will happen when it grows to the point that government comes in and regulates how things work and content is controlled and disseminated?
Will there every actually be a coherent community strategy and can there even be one with money at the center of everything?
Will Steemit be able to continue to stay in the background of activities on the platform when the bills to run this place reach in the millions and ten tens of millions every month?
What is the strategy for combating the competition that is coming and will continue to come?
What happens if the price of Steem tanks and stays there?
All relevant issues that for me raise potential challenges that I would love to see addressed on a community wide basis. As I said I am here learning, participating and hoping. Time will reveal and I hope things can be made clearer and strategies will be put in place that become abundantly clear to those of us who are actively participating because we love the concept. Thanks.
Actually, to that end, I have created Steem Ocean which is a site that monitors the Steem blockchain and provides stats (and will also gradually provide new features that are missing from steemit.com). One of the features is a voter ranking table that displays voting behaviours and ranks all active voters relative to each other, attempting to display their level of altruism (It's just a rough guide). Currently your account is #2 on the whole platform for the amount of money paid out in self votes and as a result your account is near the bottom in terms of it's altruism ranking.. I'm curious as to what your comment on that may be. I am in no way judging you here and I'm sure that most people, given a large delegation, would be using it to upvote themselves.. Do you feel that I should change the algorithm in some way? Maybe accounting for how much resteeming each account does to promote other accounts would be a good idea? You can learn more about how the voter
This place does have lots of potential and the opportunities for those who work hard can be great. I will continue to put the time in here and do all I can to learn how to become better at blogging. In the meantime your continued positive posts are very helpful. Thank you also for your support and hard work.