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RE: Proposed Changes & Curation Rewards
"You have to earn your way up through writing and commenting."
Could at least the earnings/rewards be better and easier at the beginning ... like with new casino players that get so many rewards (lunch for 2 for free,bonuses,tickets, free entrance etc...) until they get hooked... and then the rewards get less after one month or two... ;)
or just give to new users a first deposit bonus and give them 100% more Steem Power
when they buy Steem Power with their bitcoins from steemit
Promotions like this are good but what is the mechanism for paying for them?
@liondani I honestly don't know whether they have more than enough or not. Every new account will need to be funded with 10 SP which means they currently have enough for 3 million users accounts and that's all (yes changes can be made to the minimum balance but I'm just pointing out that the resources are not limitless here). On top of that, much of Steemit's stake is supposed to be slowly sold off to pay for development. I don't know if that is still their plan but it was earlier. So giving away more of it to pay for this sort of promotion would have to be balanced against those other competing uses.
steemit pays for them (even manually) until the planned redistribution of wealth is done!
they have more then enough... https://steemit.com/@steemit/transfers
https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@officialfuzzy/if-steem-reaches-even-25-of-reddits-market-valuation-#@smooth/re-fuzzyvest-re-liondani-re-officialfuzzy-if-steem-reaches-even-25-of-reddits-market-valuation--20160608t100521600z
Sadly, anything making things easier for smaller guys can be gamed.
The bonus is something steemit should consider for sure though, nice idea. Maybe a bit sleazy ;-)