RE: HEY!! WE NEED ATTENTION!
There isnt a need for users to power up their accounts beyond what is necessary to interact. Thats the reality of it, so I think its important to highlight that fact. I'm not sure what type of barriers to account creation exist now, and it was a point of contention before, but perhaps it makes sense to allow a front end user account that does not interact with the blockchain yet, but allows views. Doing so would generate ad dollars from unique hits. In addition to that, the front end account would be queued on the list for full account creation status.
One strong point to this suggestion would be that a normal password can be used, which is more familiar to people.
I understand that you dont need an account to view anything, which is the counterpoint, but atleast a user can start seeing the interface and generally get a feel for what can be done.
Right, there isn't almost any need currently for users to have much power. For gaming and posting a lot of comments there is. For posting a few blogs a week and 10 to 20 comments a week you need probably less than 15 or 20 Steempower. To game and do lots of actions on the blockchain you need a lot more than that.
SteemitINC isn't doing almost anything to advertise why people should use the blockchain, or for projects, or dapps, or videos, etc. They could easily make the price of Steem go up if they were organized and have lots of users coming in(that creates buy pressure). When people are buying Steem because they need it to interact more, that's what we need to drive the price up. Nobody really knows about Steem in the crypto world and that's the fault of SteemitINC for not advertising/going on podcasts to get the word out/being a presence on social media/etc.
A ragtag bunch of random users on Steem are not going to organize and start a huge advertising campaign. Everyone talks about doing it but they never do. Sad to say, JerryBanfield was really the only one doing that.
People are willing to pay for digital items when it comes to video games, so it makes sense for people to want to buy more SP to have more RCs.
But aside from gaming why would one need more RCs? (I'm talking out loud here, but at this point, why not. We're in pure discovery mode!)
Its all about performing transactions but for the average poster, it's not gonna matter because you don't need alot of SP to perform 99% of functions. But there needs to be a driver, or a higher cost to transact.... The cog is still spinning.