RE: 100 Steem Bounty: What is the solution to a lack of SMT development?
subsidizing apps with very little user base.
Definitely not in favor of that.
So those people that you feel aren't building a better anything...they really don't need to as they are building a better steemit just by being active
The actual value of an individual social media user is quite low. For example, last I looked Facebook generates revenue of about $40 per user per year. So yes, I think it is reasonable to pay people just for being active, but not unlimited amounts. In fact on Steem a very large portion of the reward pool goes to a small portion of users. Most of them are not building anything of enduring value, and they are being grossly overpaid for being active.
(assuming they aren't content thieves, spammers, or scammers).
Yes that describes a lot of them in broad terms. Or simply overpaid.
get over the idea that posts need to be amazing long form content
I certainly did that a long time ago. In fact I never believed it.
I think you and I are on the same page. Just about the wording more then anything. Everything you just wrote I'm in complete agreement with.
Not looking for people to be over compensated, but feel many times the wrong people are being compensated.
We do need to figure out how to let new accounts come online and actually function. I run @pifc and we do a weekly curation contest (week 35 now) and it needs to be people who are reputation score 55 or under that get featured. So we see a lot of newbies come and go...and see the issues they deal with. RC's have really messed with the ability of a new person to actually use steemit.
Some have speculated that there will be pools for RC's down the road where a community can allow it's members access to the use of the RCs it has to help smaller members function. This would be great if it happens as any account with over 500sp probably never needs all of their RC's and they go to waste.
There has actually been some development on the RC pools, so it is a little more than speculation, but I have no idea if or when it will be completed and released.
With the changes in development priorities after Steemit layoffs, I am much less confident about the likelihood of RC pools than I was before.
Something like 30% likely within one year, 70% within 3 years, where before I would have said 70% within one year, 97% within 3 years.
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It doesn't appear to be on the roadmap until after SMT-lite which goes to April or so. I have no idea if any work on RC will be done in parallel, but I wouldn't count on it. So I largely agree with your assessment.