Oh, what a marvelous day it is, in the land of Steemit!
Actually, @ats-david, I'm having flashbacks to the last time I was all hopeful and purchased "The Secret To Making Money Online!" in An Exclusive Time Sensitive One Time Offer for just $49.95! And so, I discovered that the true Secret To Making Money Online! is to persuade others to pay $49.95 for An Exclusive Time Sensitive One Time Offer that gives them "The Secret To Making Money Online!" which they can then sell to the obscenely gullible and mindnumbingly ignorant with An Exclusive Time Sensitive One Time Offer for just $49.95!
Wait... am I likening our beloved Steemit to a common Internet rip-off model? SHAME on me! You'd better flag me, at once!
In all seriousness, I think it's time we took a long hard look at what we're trying to do here. What's the PURPOSE of Steemit? And what's our time frame? Short term profiteering is seldom the path to long term growth and stability. Do we want Steemit to still be "something" five years from now? Or do we only care about making money RIGHT NOW?
I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but I've seen this pattern on dozens of content sites that offered "rewards." And it can be a site destroyer. I don't care whether we're "on the blockchain," because that doesn't exempt us from dealing with human nature... specifically GREED.
The whole thing about "no censorship" and "people should have the freedom to post whatever they want... just ignore them or mute them" is nice in theory, but do you REALLY want people to "mute" or "ignore" someone who's sailing on the same boat as us... and whose "hobby" is drilling holes in the hull of the boat? If you have an ounce of sanity, you tie such a person up, or put them in a lifeboat by themselves, or throw them overboard.
Frankly, I like it here... and I think a lot of others do, as well. So let's see if we can't figure out how to keep the S.S. Steemit from sinking...