RE: Mean Tweet Campaign... I love Steem, BUT....
We have no network effect because of account creation.
Easy and fast accounts mean, Friends can invite friends.
You you tell them they have to pay, it looks like a ponzi.
There is no benefit for average user to come to steem.
They will never buy Steem
They will not post awesome content ( more Instagramm like posts)
But we need them. If Steem is used by the masses, it is worth to build on steem.
If nobody use it, it is worth nothing.
I think with RC steem is save for spam ( i know its impossible to stay 100% save), so accounts should be so cheap tribes, front ends, Games.... can easy use them without they have to pay thousends of steem.
Every User of Steem makes Steem more valuable.
Burn Steem? Make a account creation pool........
Wait some years more, the tech is old and the current community is dead.
The end users are not supposed to be the investors... they bring the investors, where people gather an economy develops... that IS the network effect.
no easy onboarding, no users, no devs, no investors ----> no network effect.
If something like Nextxolony would trend to the "masses", its impossible with the current system to onboard only 15k users for them.
Think about a Million Users.....
Next problem is, if a big site wants to join steem network with there users.
Steem is far away to be usefull for endusers or businesses.