I personally could have survived here under the current system. I started out only doing one post a day and mostly just commenting on people that commented on my posts. I eventually learned that getting out and interacting was a much better play, but my first post made about $8(everyone's a bit nicer on those introduce yourself posts), but over about the next week I would have earned enough to increase my activity.
Even if I hadn't though and I were new coming in now, the price of Steem is only .89. I don't really see $20 as an investment. I can see that as the price of entertainment. I'd pay that to see a movie, or do some other thing that's not going to earn me anything, but provide me with something I value.
I think the way this is balancing out is fair, and I think if I just started today and I wanted to do more, I'd just buy a bit of Steem. You don't need $100 worth or anything. As you mentioned $25 would do for a new user.
Now I know this is a global system, and $25 might me tough for some, but I think we can't build the system around that. Shoot for something middle of the road, and I think that's what we have.
That's really helpful. I appreciate hearing from someone who took a different path. All my friends seem to have started by commenting a lot.
I hope it does turn out that enough people will have a good enough experience off their introduce yourself post to be willing to put in that $25 within their first couple months, so that they can start to really grow and thrive on here.
Makes me think I'll start spending more time going through those intro posts to give folks some nice upvotes. At this point I mostly read the people I already follow and occasionally find new people to follow in comments and resteems of my friend's feeds. But it may be time to go back to seeking out new people to follow again.
Yea, we all should probably make that a priority. It's one of those things anyone can do and yea, like you I pretty much stay in my circles and just branch out when my current circle overlaps someone new. (Pretty sure that's how I found you, haha)