Appreciate your work.
Unfortunately you've confirmed what I suspected about how many "live" users we have here.
You had a list, and now you have the logic published about the workings behind the list. It was an error you recognized early on and corrected, so I commend you for that.
It is interesting how a Proof-of-Stake system mirrors the real world with scammers and opportunists, does it not? I find it instructive for any other digital currency, as a warning of what NOT to try.
It is such a pity that POS does mirror the real world, but when money is involved this does not suprise me. I think others digital currencies are already learning from the mistakes of steemit and POS. Steemit is an experiments, still in beta and may be ahead of its time, lets just hope not to early!
I don't see the problem here. It's a test platform just as you say. Eventually someone will figure out the ideal system that creates most amount of success.
The platform name doesn't really matter. It's still the same game of creating value no matter what the platform is being called. But there is nothing even close to Steemit right now that works this well.
Compared to the traditional trio of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter this is a pretty massive step forward in evolution and excellence in a data system that works.
The real world has created more abundance than ever before so clearly that system works. That's why it's good that Steemit mirrors the real world so to say.