Actually I am ok with people being required to invest to earn. If someone is required to invest 15$ to make an account which will actually be given in the form of SP and then the possibility of making more money from it, sounds like a fine business model to me. Steem is a PoS coin at its core, and you have to have stake to have power/influence.
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what about investing to comment? Is that ok? Are you not allowed to talk here unless you put enough money in the meter?
And I'm not mad at you @mightypanda... I know you didn't make the rules. But this place is going to be only niche if that stays like this... They can rule out a "mass adoption" of this as a social platform.
And ps... I guess they are putting all their eggs in the steem is such a great blockchain that people will just buy the token. Because they will have declining users at an even faster pace than before. The churn was over 100% last I looked, and now they cut the faucet off of new people coming in. I hope the "investors" step up or nobody's going to be earning much if steem keeps going on its downward path.
IF they want to increase user interaction but curb scam, they will have to disintegrate the two. Let people join and comment and vote like they do on FB but thr vote will have 0 value unless they have meaningful stake. But that leaves the resources issue as is. Thr is a cost to running blockchain and if transfers and activity is free then that cost will become unmanageable.
then they don't want to have a truly mass platform. This place is just a small little niche community that will never grow if that is their mindset.
Also I guess when they halve the user base another 50%, they will be coming for the rest of our money next. Of course it costs money, but you can't tell me that they couldn't cover the little guys instead of giving the RCs out to the big boys to rent.
This is such a farce its blown my mind.
I think Dave and I mean this respectfully that you are still holding on to the idea of the success of steemit, we were told by top 20 witnesses mind you, that's not in the plans, and that more than likely steemit will die.
The RC will be administrated by dapps, they will have their pools of resources and within those dapps there would be "walls" if you will. In other words, the Partiko people might never find out about the dtubers, unless the user would log in under dtube himself.
What the dapps want to take for their resource credits, meaning, what they want to charge for them: Phone numbers, emails, subscriptions, etc. Is completely up to them.
So I guess I agree with you, this is not to make Steemit stronger, it's to make the blockchain of STEEM scalable. But I thought we knew this already.
Hey @meno, I always love running into you. You have my respect in all things! And yes, you are right that we've been warned that the Steemit project is a test/incubator to showcase the power of Steem. And yes, I agree this will make Steemit weaker, but I also understand they are trying to make the blockchain scale-able. I know the investors have high hopes, and of course I would be happy if they're right, but to me it seems nuts that they piss off so many people at a time.
Why on earth wouldn't they lower the threshold to make comments (and they can up the theoretical fees on other things for that matter)? Limiting engagement to something simple like commenting shows a lack of understanding of what we care about. I'm all for the growth of the value of the steem cryptocurrency, but I fail to see how letting people comment more (and post less or vote less or post less videos...etc) runs counter to the plan. After all, its the users of the platform that have put lots of time and energy into this and made it their online home... Why not respect that and let the new people join us and tackle the problem in other ways?
Having said that, I'm totally tired of this topic. When I made the post I was super shocked. I've now seen the logic (I don't agree, but I've seen it)... So I'm not as shocked, and more just unenthusiastic for their plan. I hope I'm wrong and they have major mega corporations lined up to invest in steem and take the prices to $100 for steem. I would love nothing more than for you and my other friends to make a huge hit in this venture!
Thanks for the input and as always, its good to see you and much respect to you always for what you do for everyone! :D