First of all, I am glad to see more stakeholders representing a different region participate in witness voting and voicing their desired direction for Steem as you did in a previous post. I still can't help but question the decision to quickly vote in witnesses who have not expressed any interest in addressing the concerns you raised in that article. But I understand that this was done primarily to start a conversation, and I'll thus leave that for later.

First of all, I hope this will result in an open discussion about downvotes, proof of brain, enabling a platform economy where different groups with language barriers can get invested and find their own success, etc. And also what you as investors in STEEM see of value in our blockchain and how we can make it more attractive for others, and also create opportunities for those on Steem that have a different view of downvotes as other stakeholders seem to have.

I completely agree that downvotes and proof of brain as it currently is has a very negative effect on the environment and culture on Steem. We need a Steem where anyone who invests feels that they can get something of value, grow a community, and find success. We need a Steem where all different language groups and diverse communities can grow, and only wish other groups success because we all want to see more people and more activity on Steem.

However, it must also be a solution that prevents frequent abuse of rewards coming from a shared inflation pool that affects the value of everyone’s tokens. I therefore believe that we need to come together to rethink if inflation and proof of brain should be a part of the main STEEM token, or if it should instead be moved to SMTs. Alternatively, if communities can provide other alternative ways to incentivise users and share revenues. There can be many ways to allow Steem communities to grow and to have a rewards pool without having that additional inflation on the main STEEM token itself. There are many arguments for this, which I would be happy to share in more detail later.

In any case, I hope we can all get a better understanding of what value your team and investors see in Steem, as well as what future plans you have, and how we can work together to accomplish those goals. I also think it is crucial at this point in time that we get a good conversation going about how we can make Steem an attractive home, platform and place to run business for all of us, and the many more we want to bring to Steem.

Again, I hope this can be the beginning of a new conversation about where we want to take Steem long term, and I would be happy to be part of further discussions.