I am glad someone is doing this. On a deeper level, before you address all the work that needs to be done to recruit more people, is the fact that most people who bother to join and write posts end up leaving. This has to be tackled first. If you get a bunch of people recruited, signed up, then most leave, recruitment seems like futile task. As I've said all along, we must feel good on this platform. If only 1% of the people (the writers who get upvoted by whales) feel good, then we have a serious problem. We need to study human emotions and pay real and serious attention to what makes people feel good on a social media platform. If most people don't feel valued, engaged and also appreciated, then they will leave. This is basic human nature that has been overlooked. I don't have the answers, but I know that centralization of power and money is the main source of this persisting problem. Many ideas have been looked at, and among them all is redistribution of the money. All the projects like Curie try to solve this problem. Curation guilds, I suppose are on the way....but all of these things are band-aid approaches and lack one thing: value attached to individual users' attention. Right now the average newbie user is not valued at all. IF steemit can solve this bigger issue, then it looks bright.
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hi @stellabelle thank you for your feedback. At the moment everything is about money and yes, it can be very frustrating, if you don´t match the interests of at least one whale, but I think this will change in future. Because of those projects you mentioned above and because of a general change of possibilities and interests. Imagine a steem based yelp, where users get curation-rewards for their comments from a restaurant with enough steem power (I just discussed that with @fabio) or some kind of gamification. Please have a short look at the pyramide and the matched interests in the first part of this concept. Sure this is only a suggestion, but if there is a product-diversification (steemit.com, steem-yelp.com, steem-poker.com steem-whatever.com ...) I think it´s possible to have success with steem without being a talented writer ;-)