I know you did, you argued that point fairly well with me. I think it stems from the actions of trying to go in and remove the rewards after Anthony asked them to make verification of the accounts or he'd remove the rewards to which he was preempted from doing.

"What has value is a matter of opinion"....if that were true then every single individual should have the right to post whatever they wanted without regard to content or quality and be rewarded for it. We know that's not true here. If I posted one picture a day without anything else to go with it and had a trial that upvoted it to ten bucks everyday I'd start getting flagged for low quality content.

I think what they may be missing here is the fact that Facebook though they own Instagram they function differently, there is no separation here of that fact. What one gets rewarded for the others get the chance to be equally rewarded for such here in the US when it comes to monetary compensation. With "gets the chance" being the key words here.

Like I've said and I don't know if you've seen it but if it was really as simple as posting pics of hot babes my town is full of them, we are a gentrification town that has seen a growth of colleges which has attracted tons of beautiful women. I would have just needed to go get a good camera and go downtown and start taking photos...and what I'd posted would make those girls on Instagram look bad....if I hit the beaches in my state...really, really bad. I'd be rich by now.

All's I can say is they were really interested in what I had to say. I won't know for a few days what the outcome will be. If they move forward Steemit, as a US based company, will be forced to address the issue, the disparity would have to be removed or Steemit will have to fine a way to make their version of Instragram a separate entity away from a shared rewards pool.

I won't know what is going to happen with it all for a few days. Right now I'd just advise anyone caught up into it to write down the first day harmed and keep track of losses in case Steemit doesn't deal with the issue. If successful it will be a pic for a pic regardless of the contents of the pic and we'll have hundreds of people I am sure who'll be just as happy as the APPICS to run around on here circle jerk upvoting each others pics.