Excellent comments & ideas, @rentmoney! I couldn't agree more. It was your blog on No Minimum that made me aware of, inspired by and become involved in these issues in the first place.

I very much like the idea of putting a cap on vote value. It's insane the way it is now. They have literally given themselves the ability to print money. There's many whales on here who with a single vote grant themselves hundreds of dollars, or more. I know you already know this, but some Steemians may not. The idea that one person's vote can be worth so much more than hundreds or thousands of others goes against everything that they say Steemit is supposed to be about.

The main problem with this, or any idea or change that will limit or lessen the amount of money the richest Steemians make is that how likely are they to impliment these changes? How often do CEOs and boardmembers of any business vote to lessen their salaries as opposed to voting themselves constant, massive increases? Of course I want these changes to happen, but I don't think I'll be holding my breath that they will.

The sign up time should for sure be much faster. I believe I read a blog that some witness had created an app that significantly sped up the process. Steeminvite, perhaps? Just checked, yes here is the link for it. I haven't used or checked it out much yet, but it looks interesting and potentially very helpful .

And hey, anything is possible right? Perhaps some of the higher up will have a change of heart, or get tired of counting their money all day and tripping over their gold bars all over the house and will DO THE RIGHT THING and make the fixes and changes to Steemit that will help make it as Awesome for Everyone as the rest of us know it can be. As long as we got people like you out there, and all the other awesome newbies and minnows on here, swinging away in the trenches, I still have hope.

Cheers mate! As always a true pleasure interacting with ya.