Ad revenue... if steemit had ad revenue sharing with bloggers, plus they can earn upvotes (which would be akin to tips), we might be able to keep some solid influencers here...

YES. Users need more control over their own blogs. I would also like to see the number of witness votes per account lowered from 30 to 10 or 5, to better decentralize the leadership.

It seems simple to me. Increase the ability of people to earn on here and the masses will flood in. Unfortunately all the changes that we are doing recently are likely going to further decrease people's

Considering that delegations are going to further dilute everyone else's vote, we need to be very judicious about any and all delegations. Plus, could we get some people in here with no conflicts of interest

And rightly so, they have left their investment in the platform instead of cashing out. Anyone else could up their steem raking by simply buying more SP.

We would have to reset all votes and then people would have to go back and re-vote for those they want. That would actually be a good thing as there are some dormant votes on there that likely don't need

What does your overhaul look like?

I think you are missing the point. Right now every account can vote for 30 witnesses, while only 20 make all the decisions around here. That means that if any one account accumulates enough stake they

Ok, I will do that. Does it require a HF to make this change?

The reason that a ton of things get piled into hardforks is because they are costly to implement and we have to get the exchanges to upgrade as well. If we hardfork too often we incur unnecessary costs

I agree with this as well. We see a huge influx of activity when prices go up and it dies off when prices go down. Want more people here? It's simple, figure out how they can earn more and they will show

Good deal. What do you think about changing the witness votes from "30" to "10 or 5"? Right now our Top 20 witnesses are basically all being decided by just a couple of the largest

The problem is that some of the current witnesses may be against it as it may directly impact their 'earnings' and a seat at the Top 20 table... That is part of the problem with this system, the foxes

By the way, what is the ETA on these things (SMTs)? A month or two? Longer? What is your best guess?

I agree. I think SMTs and Communities need to be the top priority, over anything and everything else.

Also as long as we are taking input here, my other suggestion would be to limit witness votes to something around "5-10" per account instead of the current "30". The reason being that

There are lots of working blockchains not listed on there. I would think given the other things steem has going for it, IE one of the most used by real people, didn't do an ICO, sets up perfectly for Coinbase

True, but we can at least give it a try.

I think we need to make this change as soon as possible.

That doesn't make for a very good currency!