Nice to see you back here :) Mate can I ask you for one thing, PLEASE have it in your agenda to post once a week and take a day off your hard work, to curate some content, or better yet half an hour a day, at least engage with the community. Write a few lines here and there. There is a growing discontent and you guys are "missing" there used to be a lot more conversation and "moderation" on the platform. The witnesses and the whales were working together and things we re EPIC, last year :D So unless you big guys get back here not just pushing buttons thinking that produces change, but having your personalities interact peacefully, thus creating a good ecosystem so problems can be brought up solved and on to the next one. Set a good example and don't stop "promoting" it. The community needs you, there should be a active support team if you can't handle it. But since you are the heads, not showing up in your own show makes people throw potatoes around. Rotate those 30 minute shifts if you have to, POWER curate please :).
Find the best content, the most rotten ideas and help one become reality without neglecting the other and just downvoting it. It needs attention too. You've already built most of the functionality. Help people understand it better and help them help themselves.

And as I go about that we have a pride of cheetas :D Seriously hold people accountable. Stop saying make one account per person and then have 5 :D
I can see why there are problems. Sure it's not in your best interest to poke a hornet's nest, but guys please the platform is crashing and no math can help. The people are the BACKBONE the head is too heavy at this point.

Please get back to the community and give back to it. Your ideas is already alive and everybody did fall for it so to speak. If you neglect your children they will grow up to be stupid assholes and you won't be able to keep them under the rug. Vlog Blog get interviewed I don't care. Show you are there and you CARE>

And please update the UI, there are some insane apps compared to the main hub, implement those solutions. Stop thinking of ways to change the system, fix the flow of it. Curation is a great concept. Rewarding comments from that pool isn't sure for me everything should fall under the author rewards. But then voters won't be rewarded for their votes. And having people actively participate would be better than having ghost comments and ghost votes. Let people read, don't make them think voting is mining crypto. :D Activity is the driving force behind any platform, sadly we need yours, because you have the most power and therefore the most responsibility. Drop a line here and there a weekly advancement post, hod yourself accountable for what you are doing, show people you care. Sorry for the Whine :D next time I hope we can toast something better :)

I will be making my posts on the 0.17 hard fork because I'm not sure I like the ideas proposed there. Sure the blockchain improvements are a must and a better platform that' s light as a feather will be the envy off all sites. But incentivizing something artificially won't help. The best examples are @kus-knee because he implemented the throw a bone to comments program. But he does that ACTIVELY and it's the same as a upvote from you guys. @abit gives 7$ for a vote :D you are worth more probably, there comment disparity fixed :D i only 1% of whales vote on comments no wonder there is a 1% return. I've always voted on comments because I read them. And I want people to see that I care. Is it draining to my pool YES are my votes worth anything :D thanks to 10 bones and 5 krnels :D a 20sbd upvote from val not really :D so 2 months of hard work get rewarded with 30-40$ and I haven't been focused true. But I see problems and I want them fixed. I can always do my research and post my articles. Why would I if there are 10 people there willing to take their time to read something, with a ACTIVE user base of 2k people I can see why at least with 5K there will be a 5:1 ratio for the creators. The problem is that Creators care for Profits and not much on delivering a good piece that is well made polished and worth some tangible value. Why because they see others doing reposts, rehashes, not giving a fuck and still making more, so why bang your head up a wall for 2 months pushing concepts to people that have no imagination to understand them.

Sorry for the OFFTOPIC :D "wall" of spam :D at least it's contained here and only for you to see @dantheman

Cheers mate, :) hope there are better times ahead and we can SPRING back up again from all the bs, again don't neglect your children and make more nannies to keep them under the rug. Skeptic is spilling over Minds taking his hard earned spam and throwing it around.

Daily Report by @elyaque ~2800 active users. sure its the weekend but that's a drop from 6k where maybe 20k would be ideal for 2k authors trying their hardest to solve problems. Actively engaging the community that is genuinely interested. Wouldn't we rather see that wouldn't steem's price be 1$ again if that was to happen. Well you can make it, you guys hold the POWER in your hands.

call it what you will I would love to see a response.