Hey everyone!
Haven't done any #asksteemit posts in a long time. On Reddit the r/askreddit was one of my most favorite subreddits as the discussions were amazing and anyone in the world could take part in and share their experiences and knowledge about anything and everything and the users would upvote depending on quality.
It truly is amazing to now be on a platform where that same activity can be rewarded with actual value through votes and incentivize the growth of even more quality. We are still at the very early stages of the platform and it reminds me a lot of how Reddit was in the beginning when the userbase was smaller and most discussions revolved around Reddit itself and its development.
As you may have noticed there are many apps springing up to life lately such as @dtube, @dsound, @dlive and many more even though we haven't even implemented SMT's yet which will let anyone more easily incentivize and monetize their own platforms through them as well. There will literally be no limits to what you will be able to do with SMT's and curating just for content will probably become a fraction of what people will do with their voting power. This is also a reason why I think the current curation algorithm should remain as it is, even though vote selling and buying has been one of the first major effects from it I doubt it will be the last. I know many users don't appreciate that aspect of the platform and assosiate it with abuse but I like to compare it to the early days of Bitcoin, where the innovative blockchain technology was not yet clear to many and obviously was abused by shady people and businesses first.
The good will in the end outweigh the bad and people have started to finally realize the invention that is now blockchain and all the advantages that will bring us in the future.
So what are you looking forward to do with your voting power in the future, Steemians? What sort of services and functions do you expect to arise with SMT's and other?
