Hey @macoolette! Thank you for highlighting this! I like and I agree with your list.
- Resource credits: I agree, it is very discouraging for a genuine newbie to only be able to comment and post maybe once and wait for a week before they can make another comment and post, though I can understand it is a mechanism to get rid of scammers and spammers. There must be some better way to identify scammers and spammers at the beginning and removing them instead of delegating just 15SPs to new members. Maybe 100SP is too much but if Steemit monitors every new account's activity, I am wondering, why not un-delegate from the account the moment they notice scamming and spamming?
- Self upvote: Haha, I had the same thought. I had some who commented, upvoted themselves but did not upvote my post. I was like whaaaatttt?? Should we flag such commenters? And personally, I cannot bring myself to upvote myself. It feels too weird. Maybe later (dunno when will that be :D) when my SP is worth a dollar, I might upvote myself since my earning per post now is less than a dollar :D.
- User interface: Yes to all the feature improvements. I have been wondering why Steemit does not have all these features. But the other apps are pretty cool, though I tried running eSteem but I keep hitting a json error.
- Bid bots: Ooo is that what it is? I have always been on amazeballs as to how those trending posts get to earn hundreds of dollars!! Dang.
- Reward for old posts: I agree that there are many old posts that are very useful. And would be nice to still earn after the 7 day payout window, especially when a newbie searches and reads an old post, they wouldn't know the tips and tricks to find the person's latest post and upvote them. I upvoted a few old posts when I first joined.
- Steemit support: Yup yup, it would be nice to get a little upvote from Steemit as an encouragement :)
You're welcome and thank you too for your comprehensive review. As @freedomshift has mentioned, these are just wishful thinking but who knows. Wishes do come true… 😊
For the self upvote, I would honestly tell the commenter to be more genuine next time and not exploit the copy/paste spam. I told that to the commenter I was referring on my post.
When cicisaja told me about eSteem, I also liked the idea so I tried it. But just like you, I kept getting an error like that. I can't even schedule a post with an error of something like "can't get schedule" so I stopped.
For the bid bots, try to open a post on the trending page and look at the author's wallet. You will notice at least one transfer (others have several transfers) of large amount of either Steem or SBD to accounts that offer bid bot services. There was once I tried to compute how much the account paid versus the payout of the trending article. It was not really that much. The difference was around $5.00 though at least that exposed the author and the post through the trending page.