Good food for thought. Sure I know undervalued authors. I guess the problem is the 7 day mark, where those authors do not post often enough - and when quality is published, there's only another 7 day time period to acknowledge this quality.

As far as steem and the power-down period goes, @ned has not been active for 7 month now. Hasn't he been developing a next steem? Or has it been a former core steem developer who has? I'm bad in name-dropping here, but you know what I'm talking about, do you? And if alternatives arise, what's the best for investors: leaving the ship fast, is it?