I have one idea, well one idea and one complaint. I'll start with the complaint - it's too complicated for a newbie! It has taken me well over a year of working almost very single day to learn the necessary skills. Now I am not only a great content creator, I'm expected to be a great proofreader, great editor, great photographer (working on it), great lay out artist (working on it), great self-promoter (working on it), great community member (working on it), great curator (always been good at that - I love supporting other artists!).

Here's a conversation I had with someone who was somewhat impressed that a recent brilliant story of mine had earned nearly 10 STU

"Well, that's not dollars, that's STU. I don't earn that much. Hang on and let me calculate how much actually ends up in my wallet. First, I halve that $10 to $5. The upvoters get the other half - I'll explain that in a second. Then I multiply by the value of SBD to USD and get 3.5. Then I divide by the value of STEEM to USD and get 24.14. So I earn 24.14 steem on that post. Which does happen to be around $3.50. Today. But that fluctuates with the value of both STEEM and SBD. Yeah, that's a very high paying post for me that took around seven hours to write, proofread, edit, format, provide an image that I took myself, edit the image so it pops, layout, publish, and promote it wherever and however I could. Of course you won't make that much as a beginner, I've been doing this for well over a year now so I know the ropes. But it's worth it!"

I didn't have a chance to get to the upvote curve, delegation, resource credits, tokens, front ends, tips, minnowhood, whales, curators etc before this person said "no thanks"

I do not know why I stayed, except that I managed to meet some fantastic fellow writers and am officially addicted to writing. Until I joined steem I could be heard saying "I can't write."

Which brings me to my idea:

Make it more simple. One has to be a math-minded tech-savvy gambler to make it in this place. It only appeals to an elite class.

Thanks for letting me get all of that off my chest!