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Maybe these things can be done concurrently, if this is a good idea, it should be looked at irrespective of whether or not communication between Steemit Inc and the broader community needs to be improved

Perhaps when communities come around, we can have a suggestions community and communication can be easily organized and voted on then. In the meantime there just going to be odd posts like this hoping to draw some attention and gauge consensus

Maybe it could be done concurrently, I will follow the other responses for various opinions.
Seems to me there are other changes on the "roadmap" first and economic changes coming already. The liquidity of SteemIt, Inc will have to be addressed at some point. (nothing to do with personalities) Although at this point this would not be a serious consideration for me, I am interested to see how people respond. Thanks for the "food for thought".