Not that I've ever run a social media site, but I've been around for the rise and fall of enough of them since the start. My computing days go back to the mid 80's when we had our first computer in the house, it cost more then the cars my parents were driving.

Now as we deal with a lot of smaller members of steemit and see their posts, comments, and issues I think this adds to the knowledge base of what steemit needs to do.

If we want Steemit to go main stream then the KISS rule needs to be followed. Keep It Simple Stupid.

Problem with all the "solutions" to problem presented by the witnesses and steemit inc developers is that they all want to appear smart. But by trying so hard to look smart they are killing engagement and making it less attractive to new people coming in due to all the moving parts.

Steemit was already highly confusing to a brand new person and then they added an entire new layer to the mix, RC's. This now means people need to understand their VP, RC's, Steem vs SP vs SBD, what the "display vote value means", dust votes, blogging etiquette, and so much more to have any chance of even minor success here.

Sure RC's technically are just 1 addition to an already long list of niche industry jargon...industry of Steemit as they apply nowhere else except the copycat sites. But the RC's crippled the ability of new people (potential new money) from getting a chance to come in and play around for a little while for free before deciding they wanted to make an investment.

See this isn't a known commodity that people Need or Understand so a free trial run is needed to allow people to test drive what we have to offer.

So to make things better, we need to first make it so brand new steemit users can function at a real level each day without issue and second simplify the entire process so it's easier to understand.

Side benefit of simplifying things would be drastically less code meaning the site would be faster and less costly to run.