Questions for @JerryBanfield

Dear Jerry, I see that there are some people that leave the steemit community for several reasons. How do you think about each of them?

1. As a user, we can Upvote or Flag content, but Flagging makes unpopular and unpopular looses followers, so better not to flag! So there's a positive bias on most articles and replies.
2. Many people write, few people read. As rewards are highest for writing articles, it's more attractive to post than to curate, creating an overload of articles with little useful content.
3. Some tags are much more popular than others, that is likely to encourage people to write about popular tags.
4. Steemit is not decentralized, because whales decide what's hot and what's not.

Don't get me wrong, I think jerry's one of the greatest supporters of steemit and really helps building the community by setting a good example. His articles are well written, supported and I'm amazed at some of the detailed analysis. It's exactly why I ask these questions to Jerry. I would have liked to send a personal message, but couldn't find the option to do so (I asked in a steemit article and didn't get replies) - and I guess there's some value in putting these questions out to the community.
It's not an attack to Steemit or Jerry, I'm just curious about his opinion on these topics as I still need to make up my mind.

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