Well, I am not a club member because I don't meet all of the requirements, namely no one in the steem blockchain to name as beneficiary for SPI. Which makes no sense in that the Administrator of my estate can easily access my Steemit account and all of my token holdings.

So my role is strictly as an investor with no incentive to simply holding in the abstract . I have no vote in the direction of "the Club" or its future or current investments, so the benefit to me is simply what I can do with the SPI I hold.

I need to see a return on investment and liquidity is key in my decision making role as an investor. For instance, I recently sold some of my SPI to buy another Steem-based token that immediately (the next day) began giving me daily Steem distributions. To date, my only real ROI on SPI has been the recent token split, which was nice but will be infrequent. For me, the role of SPI is to act as a proxy for Steem liquidity, allowing me to PowerUp all Steem earned elsewhere.

If the direction of "Club" members is to retaliate against investors for acting as investors then there is no incentive for investors to invest and the "Club" should restrict SPI buying/selling/holding to only "Club" Members.

To be quite honest, I was prepared to buy more SPI but the comments and suggestions made by "Club" Members on this post has given me considerable pause and requires my re-thinking the role SPI has in my portfolio.