Heres's a post my @nathen007 you should take a look at. Particularly read the comments and see how our beloved Asher sees things. He offers to help delegate to anyone in the engagement leagues who needs it, but you'd have to already be fairly connected around here to even find those leagues IMHO. In general, a lot of how pro-low-RCs folks seem to think the answer is basically for all of us to work harder to help new people succeed. The new person has to somehow find discord, witnesses, people willing to sell/share RCs, etc. and add learning all of that to the considerable learning curve for the tech that is already asked of them. Meanwhile, those of us who care about this place continuing to grow, we have to work harder to seek out the newbies and teach them the above. What do we get? Well really, just increasing the likelihood that this place we value doesn't fall apart and our investments go to zero. That's what we get. And only if all of that turns out to actually be enough, which it might not.
And get this! I just read in another thread where some folks were talking about how the 10x that was recently applied to get us to where we currently are is going to have to eventually be reduced/removed!
Thanks for the post link @indigoocean. Sadly, I think the idea of encouraging people voa the "introduceme" tag is too small a drop in the ocean.
I just can't see why anyone would join Steemit, as it is now, and persevere when it is such hard (perhaps impossible) work.
What HF20 has highlighted again for me is that the people with the power have no idea what it's like to be joining Steemit now and probably don't care.
I think the view that Steemit was always a test case for the block chain is the one that makes the most sense of what has happened here. The tackling of spam is not to save Steemit in particular but to make use of the blockchain in general more attractive, ready for SMTs.
Steemit itself may well fall apart but I don't equate that with my investments going to zero. I think the future of Steem is still bright long term.
So as long as I'm enjoying the interaction it's worth being here to increase my Steem Power but I don't see it as a way to keep earning Steem long term.
I could be completely wrong of course. There are a number of people who are passionate about Steemit surviving and being improved and more of them are becoming witnesses. If enough of the money grabbers move on or become dormant the new breed of witness might have some impact.
Well said. Thanks for your perspective. I hope it does turn out that their decisions don't hurt STEEM's prospects. I must confess to having joined a couple other sites this past week though. I'm definitely hedging my bets at this point and not going all in on my "crypto for content" activity on solely this place. I don't like being captive to a monopoly, but it only isn't one when I choose to participate in multiple settings.