lol ... no you don't but, maybe a little when you talk abou taking on Youble head-on, lol ... i DO remember when an old friend msg-ed me on icq that "i just HAD to check out this new thing called "google" ..." how handy, i do (dam' im ancient :p)

As for the downvoting, i do think it's a waste of resource and it promotes enmity and encourages trolling. Enforcement, over the course of history has proven to be very unreliable as a tool. After all, in all sense of physics AND the metaverse force lasts only as long as it's applied, once it's released all things snap back to "their natural state" ... all across the board
The huge problem with the giants is : they ARE, and when they came up there werent really many, unless you count microsh*t or yahoo but i think they basically did themselves in (althoug i dont see any of them begging under the bridge, just like the pop-tarts crying wolf over piracy forget that the most download happen to be the ones making the most money at the same time ...)
which is another debate ... in essence there you could state that microsoft wouldnt "be" if it wasnt for all those people who used to "share" ms-dos floppies around, that's what got their virus spread

If you want the general populace to come over they first of all have to know about it ... it took me quite a while to hear about steemit and i basically live in a borg-cube, it's a closed environment AND

not always too friendly , RIGHT below the surface, heh .. i guess euh, if you want rewarded you'll have to go video ... reading is the new black, right ?

i think greenpeace, wff, amnesty and the likes should really be adressed by proper representatives with a pretty smile and nice, cool words trying to explain WHY the crowd here is green and caring ... steemit itself is the biggest dumper of its own coin ...
when they get to a point where they have secondary income that become primary income and no longer have to, that should already make a difference, but the top 50 still will have to show restraint, and you can't fix stripmining if the system allows it AND

the hyper-inflation ? it is not capped after all ... i dont have a degree in economics but i think that's a bit of a bugger there ...