Had they been drinking? :D
That guy is one of the few people who really, as in actual fact, tend to think outside the box.
At some point people are going to be asking about it I hope and others coming in and finding you here saying, why didn't you tell me??
I also brought Steem up in the process of showing some of my photos at the go club yesterday when the two visiting ones had already left town. What I got in response was not the kind of dismissal or a blank look of having seen a ghost or something that I had encountered before but some sense of the other person processing what I was saying. I mentioned that I'd much rather do my photography publishing on a forum that allows me to benefit from it this way with the reward mechanism slowly ticking over rather than hand over the fruits of my efforts to some billionaires for free. :)
I'm expecting being told "why didn't you tell me" if this thing pans out. I guess the crucial difference between this time and the ones before was that I didn't have to listen to any nonsense.
$rewarding 25% 15 min
A previous command crashed rewarding, sorry for this. It is now fixed and works again.
THe nonsense is going to be the thing that they will slowly overcome and start to change their tune as if it was all their idea. In time, people will find what they once rejected very natural behaviour and most likely, will feel as early adopters anyway.