It's certainly a great project and many of us appreciate what you are all doing. Along with Robin Hood Whale, Steemsquad and others this should help retain people and make them feel more welcome.
I think these kind of community based initiatives will help a lot with that goal until we get a more even distribution of voting power. I also feel the low price of Steem is helping with that.
There are roughly 35,000 active users
I think it depends on what you mean by active. Someone did an analysis of it recently and I seem to remember the figure being a lot smaller for people who were actually using their accounts to post and curate. The vast majority of the accounts had been registered and hadn't been used for quite some time - I may be misremembering though.
That said the hope is to get more of the people with accounts to actively engage and this sort of thing should help.
yeah.. I stopped reading when I got to that 35,000 claim, that's not true, so why bother continue reading... I am not a fan of this project currie, as everyday I see multiple posts on the trending page earning massive rewards about stats and promotion hyping the project. The project can work without all that hype everyday on the trending page, looks bad for the project itself to earn so much rewards when it should be about spreading the rewards to those who are not on the trending page.
Thank you @thecryptofriend!
About the stats, we'll research again. Somebody else did the research I will ask them about the metric again to make sure.
Thank you for your always insightful comments. All of them seem to add value, every time. Impressive.
Thank you. That is very kind of you to say. I may just be misremembering the figure. I don't think it really matters that much if it is 35000 or 10000 because it is still too many for all the whales to keep track of and assuming Steemit continues to grow and word spreads it will get bigger so the problem remains the same. It would be a nice indication of interest if there had been a recent surge though:)
I know, a big surge will be amazing!
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