at the risk of breaking my radio-silence and losing my distance :

that ponzi-thing where the masses need to do the work for the company wont work

the company needs to attract money by providing actual potential added value to other business and
people with money need to create entrypoints , i have no idea who the business/mass-psychologist for steemit inc is but they clearly have strange ideas on "the masses"
there, i lost my distance again gods dam ... why is it broken ? because who the hell has heard of people getting PAID to run nodes and a company dumping its own coin as primary source of income AND then expecting to in a absolutely not ponzi way everyone just bringafriend with some money to infuse the system while every time anyone buys a 50 some whale thinks its time to sell off ...

THATS WHATS BROKEN pardon my french caps , delusions on how the world works.
And what kind of a major brand would come into a zone where you can actually downvote the competitors actual money ?

delusional , i say ... i know you're a good guy, Tim , but i cant believe for one second you mean what you're saying here for real. It's crap and you know it. If THEY and the fortune 50 stripminers dont provide access that's attractive and money from real money then who the hell would come overhere to open up an account where you cant do jack with unless your FIRST spend extra money on it and THEN can't even post your daily puppy or you get steemcleanered ... what kind of "masses" do you people live in ? none , i think ...

i wasnt gonna speak for weeks but i saw the post and imo its been a while, so i read it and ... well

ah btw, you want me to do a poll in my town here and ask 20.000 people what an SMT is and what a stake is for ?

i'll get you the results ...

for about euhm lets see, at 20 cents that would be times 5 times 1000 steem then heh, lol j/k but i'm sure you get the point

I hope to see it work, really , but i dont believe in it this way, so i hope the results prove me wrong ... the downvoting culture is definitely one of the biggest no-no's to serious brands and who would spend money simply to read some articles ? and WHO amongst their beloved masses would hang around for being downvoted out of REAL monetary value ? does this not compute to anyone upthere ?
im not mister negative

i'm mister real

panem et circenses , mate, if you want "the masses" ... not 'curation' as in downvoting, you're aiming for a small niche, not the fucking planet ... pardon my english

m yea im an expert at making myself popular with popular opinion, a great politician and a supreme diplomat but

some food for thought :

https://bitnodes.earn.com/

https://www.investopedia.com/news/running-full-bitcoin-node-investors/

a win on hackernoon ? great , but that's because its hackable - the big chunk of "the people" will NOT move from facebook to here to pay for the right to post, there needs to be incentive, more the likes of steemmonsters, less the likes of that ancient idea of "good content", that part is FIT very much for a niche within the whole, not to be the rule of thumb

its my opinion, and i hope the HF21 proves me wrong in 2020 but i doubt it ... im gonna stop talking because i wasnt gonna for a few weeks as i feel steemit is taking over too much of my daily and i vowed myself no fucks would be given (yea my french again) but it seems to be harder than i thought.

I KNOW, but euh, taking away the paidforanode ? ofcourse no one will propose that, that's like politicians who would vote to lower their own wage to save on taxes ... but bitcoin doesnt seem to need it and i hurr steem claims to have the bestest, low-cost, most memory and energy efficient system requirements too ... and and and ... by now im sure i made a lot of friends in high places, but i'm one of "the little guys" here ... and i dont feel its about me AT ALL ...
i do agree with most of your list of issues there, of all people i have asked or mentioned no one sees the need since they have facebook and dont know anyone here and why and whats the point ? and the one who did said "i dont wanna b/c they ask my phonenumber" and when i said, it costs a euro today to make an account "do you want me to make you one?" a friend after all, right , she asked but can i talk to you just like on facebook then and i had to say ... well

you cant do much with a fresh account unless you put money in it or spend A LOT OF TIME NETWORKING , i wont lie to a friend, right so she said "nah, save the euro, i wouldnt know what to do with it" ...

but to blame it on little users "milking the system ? " while ichiban dumper is the company itself and the fortune 50 follow up hot on the charts ? blame ?
your tenthousand active users will have a hard time milking 1% of that, you know that's crap, and you also know your standard Joe is not interested in all that handshaking or put money in it first ...

so please,

let that HF prove me wrong , heh, and i will stand corrected

if you wanna take the "investment for the future" approach id say its a very bad time for that at 17 cents coming from almost $10 and consider the actual real situation (assuming the hyperinflation gets countered by 20 years from now and it gets a value of 1% of a bitcoin or something?) You get what ? say 10 million people retiring their retirement fund all in a very short time and what does that do on a financial market ....

it's not sticking with me, man ... i know you have nothing but good intentions but the last year of salespitch on steemit is not sticking with me
if someone can come up with a way to prevent the top dumpers from damaging or even better, a way to move from hyper-inflated to capped or pegged (i dont know how, okay, thats why im saying) i would get a lot more confident

no no no, really, if you would see some family or something getting high on their own supply what would you say ?

"good job" ?

lol yea, and thanks there erika but here ... my way of phrasing is never suited to the current locale i have seen that a long time ago but i hope at least it shows im not here prying for a vote by coming with a pot of syrup and a jar of honey but my concerns are upright and sincere, i want, or maybe need to see this thing fixed just as much as the fortune 50 upthere and i DO think its the best thing since sliced bread and maybe the only true innovation on the original since satoshi and his cronies came up with BTC (which was capped from the start and that was about 75% of the whole point about it) but that doesnt change your beloved masses mostly want , and truly nothing but

panem et circenses , the romans knew, they threw around free bread during the games too

already sorry i broke my vow of silence so i guess i'm not strong enough yet lol, bem

good luck anyway