essentially, that is why curation initiatives like @ocd and @curie are helpful because they reward users with content that is mostly deserving but often unrecognized. it provides the impetus for authors to continue posting and creates a healthy and diverse mix of content here... the retention rate on steemit would be otherwise abysmally low is suspect. the more creators we have on the site, we will need more curators, and curators won't be able to do much unless they have the backing.
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I couldn't agree more. @curie is all time favourite curation project. These guys are really doing an excellent job!
The retention is terribly bad on Steemit. Just consider the total amount of accounts vs. the number of active accounts. Then add the fact that most users on Steemit don't have just one account but many (run by bots). The majority leaves the platform after a very short time. That's the worse scenario that could happen to a new project. But guess what: nobody cares. I invite you to read an article I've written about that 9 months ago: Growth Needs Retention - The Theme Park Idea
Steemit Inc's new marketing team (which apparently doesn't exist anymore) asked the community to submit "growth-ideas". People published amazing marketing concepts on the blockchain and now guess how many of them were considered. Mine didn't even receive an answer... That's how "crowdsourced marketing" works on this platform.