RE: FUD and Pancakes
I have been buying a few decks of cards here and there from Steem Monsters, and they have given me about 50 Steem in a discount for the purchase. Right now that is the only way I know how to buy steem, I have still not bothered with the how to buy/withdraw part of steem and cryptocurrencies in general. If for the coin steem to survive it needs for the content producers to go away, what would make steem any different than bitcoin or any of the other coins.
I'm not to sure that sending content only steemians away or having them decline payout is the way for steem to recover. Seems like the first initial big crash was all bitcoin value related, then in an attempt to get stabilize and save money, like any good democratic or socialist government they took from the poor to save the rich (RC).
I don't think the idea is for content producers to go away, just that the rewarded posts should add value to the token. Hmmm.
RCs took out a lot of spam, bit brutal for some new recruits which I hope were sorted out.
I think that is where the problem lays. Value to one person is entirely different to another person. The old beauty problem, it is in the eyes of the beholder, or this case token giver. The people that vote through a curation trail really have no clue in many case what is being voted on.
Look at this post of yours, how many people found it of value, how many despite payout refusal voted (266). yes some are bote vote trails trying to pick up a penny on curation, point is it added value to the toke in the eyes of many people.
What type of content "adds" value to the token? How do we decide as a people if it added value to the token? If I were to remove all the vote trail votes from my content then total payout on anything that I have posted would be about $0.050 at most, that is how few real I came, I looked, I read, I valued your post votes I would get, and maybe 1 comment.
Is the only content that adds value to the token that content which an advertiser would find appealing?