nod - it's by far the best toolbelt on planet Crypton - but what people want is money-while-sleeping, i don't think a lot of people see the difference between a hyper-inflated utility token like steem or a capped foundation like BTC which has been around for ... well since some of them were still playing lego and playmobil if you'll pardon my french.

Despite that, the cohesion in "the group" (that's not steemit inc. im talking about) is seriously lacking. There's not a thing in the world that can compare to the power of steemchain/condenser and the lot afaik at the moment and the "alt"-coins are just marketed clones of the original with a twist , i dont see much happening there but tokens "based on", but they DO sell, and they sell because there's more digits to it. More digits attracts bigger money.

I think moving to advertising was not one second too soon there. Steemit itself is the biggest dumper of its coin so if steemit itself can rely on alternative income as primary source that should make a difference, but i'm sure the fortune 50 have a hand in it with "expenses" as an excuse. 1 million plankton wont make a dent to what one whale can dump overnight and that's a fact. You do understand @andrarchy, the bulk of the population are not tek-heads and the guys with a suit and tie in the profile picture ... they're not tek-heads either ... its a bit of a hackers drool-tool (in the good sense of the word, as you can bend it and do stuff with it that its like not supposed to do and all that, because when you say hacked you immediatley get hollywood-conditioned visuals ofcourse) but to most that doesn't matter ...
Please don't over estimate the willingness of the bulk mass and certainly not the tek-savvy. People want the dough, man ... its the magic word "crypto" that became equivalent with nouveau riche.
At the risk of looking hightower, i think you could sit here explaining for two weeks just what a fine piece of marvelous technical masterpiece the steemchain is with its apis and the js and python interfaces but to most people you might as well be speaking Latin or Ancient Greek.

The move to ads was definitely good, i have my doubts about HF++next b/c it feels like a move by the fortune 50 to salvage, which will end up in more for them, less for the rest but i'll see that when it's there AND
(gotta mind my rc heh ...)
"onboarding the masses" is good, but expecting the masses to behave like the few is delusional (im not sure what the correct incrowd word is for that but it should describe what i mean)
look at it this way : Fudbook and Blitter didnt get to where it is by 'supreme content' or the greatest new tek available in some section, it got there by sheer mass and numbers ... i think the downvoting is a real bane ... especially if you were to have two major brands competing ... including the groupies and all that ... its real money we're talking about after all, the equivalent of

that's in the way, steemcleaners is in the way, misterdelegation should be named miserdelegation as it uses all that power for enforcement instead of promotion and support ... lots its wrong and stuck from the early days when it all came for free, right, the fortune 50 could just sit on their arse and actually make money while sleeping ... that's over now ...

i think you should be cold-calling about every brand and business on the planet to convince them why they need a steemit account and what it can do for them
i think you should ring Gabe Newell from Steam to inform him on the possibility of micropayments at lightning speed with ZERO (many exclamation marks, people LOVE zeroes, more so when they come to the rightside of the number) transaction fees ... but that's not the tek-head job, right ?

who IS the marketing dept of steemit anyway ? all supreme marketeers i see in the trending section seem to be selling a lot of air on "how-to" while raking in the dough for themselves

and then some heh ....

to me its about the best thing since BTC itself but that's a world for the elite now, so is this partly but it's just too much of an interesting cool new toy to play with ... i'm gonna develop my game wether steem hits back to $5 or drops to 0.01cents but a lot of people will flee if that happens.

Can't you give grant cardone a call or something ? tell him he can have a share if he sells the stuff .. that way he gets more the more he sells :p , you need bottom input, continuous because you have hyper-inflation , the supreme tek is not gonna change that and

the masses dont just want the likes , they can get that on fudbook and more of it, they want the dough, if even that dollar a day, which is ... far away these times

omg this is gonna kill my RC, anyway (im not in the habit of checking replies lately, it might be a week a month or not so if you do, dont overdo it hahah)

that was supposed to be my 2 cents, but its a fiver again isnt it ...

https://alleycat.be
https://steemit.com/@tyrnannoght
https://tyrnannoght.alleycat.be ....

https://steemplayer.com ...

someone's gotta save the whale, right ? that poor thing ;-)

haters gonna hate ...